About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/3ddfd943513eaddafae1117eb5c4b89a7bae0e9d87594a95ae319cc8     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Scotland will begin "a careful easing" of coronavirus lockdown restrictions next week with the reopening of some outdoor activities after a "significant and sustained" reduction in cases, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Thursday. "The time is right to move towards a careful easing of the lockdown restrictions," Sturgeon said as she announced that sports such as golf, tennis and fishing would be allowed from May 28, while people would be permitted to meet one other person from outside their household. Travel restrictions will be eased for people to visit locations near their homes for recreation purposes. Outdoor businesses such as garden centres and construction sites will also reopen, although non-essential indoor shops, cafes and bars will remain closed. The changes bring Scotland closer in line with the rest of Britain, which implemented a similar easing of restrictions last week. Sturgeon, who leads the devolved administration in Edinburgh, described as "catastrophic" Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to begin a partial lifting of lockdown measures in England last week. But she said Thursday Scotland was now ready to take a "proportionate and cautious first step" due to the country's falling infection and death rate. Official data suggested that Scotland had now experienced three weeks of falling deaths and experts have "some confidence" that the R rate, which estimates the number of people each carrier infects, is now below 1.0. The overall number of deaths in Scotland currently stands at 2,221, up 37 from Wednesday. The first phase of Sturgeon's plan will be implemented from May 28 and kept under review every three weeks, subject to "rigorous, ongoing" review of the scientific evidence about the spread of the virus. Schools in Scotland, which has a separate education system, are scheduled to reopen from August 11, although there will be a "blended model" involving all pupils partly going into school and working from home, she told reporters. Johnson is currently facing opposition on safety grounds from teaching unions in England about plans to reopen schools to some pupils from June 1. Several local authorities across the country have already said they would not be able to reopen on that date. jwp/phz/ach
schema:headline
  • Scotland to ease lockdown measures next week
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software