Nicola Sturgeon: Some children could return to school as part of easing lockdown

Allowing some children to return to schools and relaxing rules on daily exercise and meeting friends are among the options being considered by the Scottish government to ease lockdown measures.

By The Newsroom

Published 5th May 2020, 16:03 BST

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed its Framework for Decision Making at her coronavirus briefing.

The first minister said lifting the lockdown will not be like “flipping a switch” but will instead be a gradual process.

Outlining numbers behind her reasoning, she said the R number – the number of people infected by each person who has the virus – is slightly higher in Scotland than the rest of the UK and an estimated 26,000 people are infectious.

She said the “best estimate” is the R number is between 0.7 and one.

But she stressed: “We can’t be sure it is not closer to one than 0.7.”