{"id":6571,"date":"2021-08-09T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2021-08-27T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T23:10:18","slug":"moving-beyond-level-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2021\/08\/moving-beyond-level-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Beyond Level 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2021\/08\/E8HOxlqX0AgUjOG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6573\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2021\/08\/E8HOxlqX0AgUjOG-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2021\/08\/E8HOxlqX0AgUjOG-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2021\/08\/E8HOxlqX0AgUjOG-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2021\/08\/E8HOxlqX0AgUjOG.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>Level zero has ended with almost all of the remaining anti-Covid measures in Scotland now removed.\u00a0On Saturday, The First Minister said that Scotland was in a &#8220;much better position&#8221; with Covid-19 than could have been expected at the start of summer, but she also urged Scots to &#8220;continue to take sensible precautions&#8221; despite many of the legal coronavirus rules being lifted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The legal requirement for physical distancing has stopped in most places and hospitality venues are now allowed with capacity limits of 2000 people indoors and 5000 people outdoors &#8211; although some exceptions may be possible on a case by case basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The restrictions which remain are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the requirement to wear face coverings indoors in public places and on public transport<\/li>\n<li>pupils and teachers must continue wearing masks indoors for up to six weeks after schools return<\/li>\n<li>school staff must keep at least 1m distance from each other and from children and young people while on the school estate<\/li>\n<li>2m distancing should still be observed in healthcare settings<\/li>\n<li>office workers should still work from home, where possible<\/li>\n<li>details still need to be given at hospitality venues for Test and Protect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also new rules on self-isolation for close contacts of positive cases. Double-vaccinated adults and all children can now avoid self-isolation if identified as a close contact so long as they are symptomless and provide a negative PCR test.<\/p>\n<p>Whole classes in schools will no longer have to stay at home if an infection is discovered, although children and adults who are higher-risk close contacts will be told to isolate.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please goto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/scotland-to-move-beyond-level-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/scotland-to-move-beyond-level-0\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Level zero has ended with almost all of the remaining anti-Covid measures in Scotland now removed.\u00a0On Saturday, The First Minister said that Scotland was in a &#8220;much better position&#8221; with Covid-19 than could have been expected at the start of summer, but she also urged Scots to &#8220;continue to take sensible precautions&#8221; despite many of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2021\/08\/moving-beyond-level-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moving Beyond Level 0&#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":[728,379,381,727,536,471,470,425],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-beyond-level-0","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-level-0","tag-physical-distancing","tag-restrictions","tag-scotland","tag-self-isolation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","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=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}