jason leitch there the scottish critical national director. thank you for your time.ll, professor of sociology at nottingham trent university and a member of the new and emerging respiratory virus threats advisory group. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. what do you make of the new restrictions announced today by the prime minister? speaking personally rather than a member of my group, i do find it for her to see the justification of these measures. the evidence that they are needed is quite fragile and the evidence that they are likely to benefit the population and controlled the virus is pretty much nonexistent. it is a great frustration that we have had six months of social and behavioural interventions with really virtually no research as to which of them are making the difference if indeed any of them are making the difference. so what would be your recommendation? what would you like to see the government do? there is a lot of talk that we are at a tipping point. i think we should remember that a tipping point can go e

scotland's national clinical director, jason leitch, said that students living in halls and flats cannot their parents. earlier learning gordon told us how advice given to the public and stu d e nts advice given to the public and students has changed. it's a clarification from the national clinical director. yesterday evening on television, he was saying that those who are self isolating can't go home and visit their parents, those who've tested positive can't go home and visit their parents. but to everyone else, he was saying to think very carefully about whether you go. with this afternoon, he issued this clarification on social media on twitter where he said, "to clarify, they are separate households." so once you move away from yourfamilial households." so once you move away from your familial home and into flats with a bunch of other students, they become your household bubble. he said there are exceptions, eg carrying responsibilities, but the law is clear, "they can't meet indoors in another household, even if the household is mum and dad. sorry." i think it's fair to say this is

jason leitch, has appealed to students not to hold parties.s for people who haven't been picked up by the test and trace system who are perhaps symptomless, to head home for the weekend and carry the virus with them to an area where perhaps the prevalence of the virus is a lot lower. the university of glasgow has said that her mobile testing unit is being sent to the halls of residence to help with the testing of the students, they are going to provide food and essential items to those in need and also they have closed the student unions there for the weekend and are also warning that while the vast majority of stu d e nts that while the vast majority of students are doing the right thing, any student found to be breaking the rules well faced disciplinary action. they could have their accommodation contract terminated and they could also be suspended from the university. what is happening to those who might be ill or becoming very ill? going to please our children who have just left home for the first time, probably, away from their families.

jason leitch is the national clinical director for scotland.r the restrictions in glasgow and neighbouring areas had been introduced in order to keep schools open. they have been brought in in the context where the schools have been open for three weeks and closing schools for five months is not a good thing. it is a terrible thing. it is a terrible thing for education and public health. the likes of me advising, we are desperate for schools to open and higher and further education to get back because they are important for the population, not just for the kids. it lets people get back to work and society. but the numbers in glasgow in the last seven days, let me just look at them quickly, 15, 21, 14, 36, 39, 69, 66. you don't need a maths degree to work out something is happening there. it is not exponential so it has not rocketed. but it is just enough for us to try to do something relatively mild, although it doesn't feel like that if you are waking up in glasgow today and you were going to see your mum and you now can't, but we wanted to do

there are issues i want to address before jason leitch and i will take measures from the media as normal renfrewshire might be helping to slow down the increase in new cases and that at this stage is positive. but the number of new cases in these parts of greater glasgow and clyde still remains high and is still increasing, albeit we think at a slower rate than would have been the case without these restrictions been in place. taking all of that into account and the local authorities for these areas we re local authorities for these areas were present at the meeting yesterday, we agreed that the existing restriction should remain in place for a further week and then they will be reviewed again at that stage. that means people in these areas, glasgow city, dumbartonshire and east and west renfrewshire should not be visiting any hassles at all right now and the same restrictions now also apply as of last friday in north and south lanarkshire. in all of these seven local authority areas you should not host someone in your home unless it is for essential care purposes and you should not visi

but first we‘re joined by jason leitch who‘s the national clinical director for the scottish governmentcated. the first question people need to ask is where do they live? which country are you in? the rules are slightly different. we have said six people indoors or outside but to households. our advice is the principal thing we are trying to prevent is the virus moving from household to household, tojump moving from household to household, to jump from person to person. moving from household to household, tojump from person to person. we have exempted children from the six but not from the two families. if you have large families you can still gather and the kids do not count in the six but you can still only have to households. it is really restrictive. we completely understand but it is tough because we are in such a precarious position. what is the scientific reasoning behind that, that children can. because in england that is not the case. there are two reasons, they are both about balance. firstly, kids don‘t get a very serious disease. they have a very mild course if they get the

let's speak to professor jason leitch now, who's the national clinical director for the scottish governmentrm and death, so it's not that big a number, so we harm and death, so it's not that big a number, so we are harm and death, so it's not that big a number, so we are well beyond that pretty quickly and we want more, the more we get, the more help it is. we have 1.2 million in about ten days. we were talking to matt hancock, the health secretary earlier stock many of the questions coming in this morning from people who are concerned about not being able to download the app because of the operating system not being new enough. have you had those problems and if so, how are you dealing with them? we have. it is impossible. it's not a country thing. on this occasion it is not matt hancock's fault, it is simply the ability for the phone to be able to do it is a very, very clever contact the other phone thing, so they don't have that on all phones so it is a tech thing, not a policy thing, so itjust can't happen. the vast majority of phones in the hands of the people across the uk are post—20

coronavirus briefing with interim chief medical officer dr gregor smith and national clinical director jason leitche will go to holyrood as soon as nicola sturgeon takes the podium there. the uk's largest hospitality company, whitbread — which runs premier inn — has warned it could cut up to six thousand jobs — due to the impact of the pandemic. theo leggett reports. we are staying here? have i ever let you down? big time at low cost, this is how whitbread liked to present it premier inn hotel chain in the days before coronavirus. but now, like many other companies in the hospitality sector, whitbread is having to tighten its belt and cut costs. it says it may have to make up to 6,000 staff redundant. whitbread has been struggling across its entire business. bookings at its hotels were about half their normal levels in august and while its restaurant chain such as beefeater and brewers fayre did do better than that, helped in part by the government's eat out to help out scheme, we are going to holyrood to hear from nicola sturgeon.” we are going to holyrood to hear from nicola sturgeon. i want to u

scotland‘s national clinical director, jason leitch, said that students living in halls and flats cannotey are separate households, there are exceptions, such as caring responsibilities, but the law is clear. they can‘t meet indoors with another household, even mum and dad. sorry. to put that into context, 1000 students in our self isolating across universities in scotland, so it is notjust glasgow, there are students in aberdeen were self isolating, students at the university of dundee and of course st andrews as well. the largest outbreak is here in glasgow, where 124 students have tested positive and more than 600 our self isolating. it‘s believed it is all traceable back to events around freshers week, a couple of big house parties, flat parties, where things got out of hand, where social distancing wasn‘t contained and where too many people were mixing stock there are measures in addition to the self isolating in place, there is a mobile testing unit at there is a mobile testing unit at the halls of residence in glasgow, there is extra support from the university on the ground there