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EasyJet has cancelled flights between Manchester and Scotland following the Scottish Government’s decision to impose a Covid-19 travel ban.
The budget airline has said they're no longer able to operate their new routes connecting Edinburgh and Aberdeen with Manchester due to the change.
Manchester and Salford were added to the ban on Monday, bringing the boroughs in line with rules already in place last month for
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Jason Leitch said clinical advice is “very, very clear” that giving people their doses at a shorter interval will not offer people enough protection. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has called for the gap between first and second vaccinations to be halved to four weeks to deal with the “out of control” spread of coronavirus.
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Manchester and Salford for Scots last Friday which came into effect on Monday, June 21. High numbers of cases of the Delta variant was the reason for the ban, the SNP leader said.
pandemic news is likely to be dominated by talks between Nicola Sturgeon and Andy Burnham to discuss the ban on all non-essential travel from Scotland to Manchester and Salford. At a press conference on Tuesday the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester told reporters he was seeking a “political route” out of the dispute.
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Scotland has recorded a weekend spike in the number of Covid patients being treated in hospitals across the country.Figures published by the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland today show 158 people are currently being treated for the virus in the nation's hospitals compared to 128 on Friday.The rise comes as a further 1,250 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Scotland in the last 24 hours – including 112 in Ayrshire.Public Health Scotland say the national figure is lower
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Scottish Government travel ban to Manchester.John Swinney said financial support would not be “appropriate” and said the ban is “consistent” with similar policies in the past.Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement on Friday that all non-essential travel to Manchester and Salford would be banned from today was met with a furious reaction by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.Burnham said yesterday: “I was really disappointed on Friday that the First Minister of Scotland just announced out of the blue,
covid news is likely to be dominated by the intensifying row over the Manchester travel ban that comes into force from today. Andy Burnham has blasted Nicola Sturgeon over her decision to axe travel between Scotland and Manchester.
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