Tier restrictions in Scotland are reviewed every Tuesday with each local authority’s position considered in accordance with the nation’s five-tier system. Scotland has now diverged from the UK-wide Christmas plan, banning existing bubbles between two households to be regarded as one household for Christmas bubbles. But what does Tier 3 actually mean in Scotland?
Scotland introduced the tier alert system on November 2.
These coronavirus protection levels set out measures which can be applied nationally or locally depending on the prevalence of the virus across Scotland.
Each area is ranked according to five levels starting at 0 and rising to 4, with 0 being the lowest and 4 the highest.
The tier system enables each resident in Scotland to understand the restrictions which have been introduced as well as outlining how and when they might be lifted.
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As of Monday, November 30, 369 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Scotland.
Since the start of the outbreak, a total of 1,179,704 have been tested at least once for coronavirus.
Of those tests, 95,058 tested positive.
In total, 3,825 people who tested positive have died since the pandemic began, with 5,380 deaths registered in Scotland mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate up to November 22.
Of those registered deaths, 42 percent were in care homes, 51 percent in hospitals and seven percent at home or non-institutional settings, up to November 15.
