{"id":6209,"date":"2020-12-23T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2020-12-23T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:22:42","slug":"covid-christmas-restrictions-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2020\/12\/covid-christmas-restrictions-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Christmas Restrictions in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas2810a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6211\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas2810a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The planned easing of covid restrictions around Christmas will be limited to Christmas Day itself, and not the previous 5 day window that was planned.<\/p>\n<p>Legal household limits will still apply &#8211; a maximum of 8 people from 3 households &#8211; however advice is to minimise the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Where possible, people should celebrate the festive period at home in their own household and meet with others outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Other than for specific exemptions, travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK will not be legal.<\/p>\n<p>Travel within Scotland will be allowed on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>From Boxing Day, all of mainland Scotland will have Level 4 restrictions applied, including the closure of non-essential retail and hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>From Boxing Day, in line with existing law, travel across local authority boundaries between areas in Level 3 or 4 will not be legal other than for specific exempt purposes.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/new-guidance-issued-for-the-festive-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/new-guidance-issued-for-the-festive-period\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planned easing of covid restrictions around Christmas will be limited to Christmas Day itself, and not the previous 5 day window that was planned. Legal household limits will still apply &#8211; a maximum of 8 people from 3 households &#8211; however advice is to minimise the numbers. Where possible, people should celebrate the festive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2020\/12\/covid-christmas-restrictions-in-scotland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Covid Christmas Restrictions in Scotland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[622,620,621,624,623,471,470,467],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boxing-day","tag-christmas","tag-covid","tag-festive-period","tag-level-4","tag-restrictions","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}