Scots urged to stay at home for Hogmanay amid Omicron surge

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Scots urged to stay at home for Hogmanay amid Omicron surge

People should minimise Hogmanay socialising amid record Covid cases, the Scottish government has said.

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All the major Hogmanay events in Edinburgh have been cancelled, as have many other events in towns and cities across the country.

On Thursday, Scotland recorded its highest ever number of Covid cases, with 16,857 cases confirmed.

But Scotland's first minister said the country could look forward to a "better and brighter new year ahead".

However, she said there was still a "very significant threat" posed by Omicron.


'Minimise socialising'
Nicola Sturgeon accepted that coronavirus restrictions meant that this was "not the Hogmanay we all wanted and hoped for".

She said: "The Omicron variant is a very significant threat. It means that, at the moment, we need above all to keep each other safe.

"We all need to stay at home, far more than we would want to at this time of year. And we have asked that you minimise new year socialising as much as you can.

"So this is not the Hogmanay we all wanted and hoped for. But I believe that we can still look ahead to 2022 with optimism."

People living in Scotland have been urged not to travel to England for new year celebrations to get away from the more stringent Covid-19 restrictions.

There is no travel ban currently in place to stop people going to England, where nightclubs are still open.


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About 10-15% of Signature's workforce was currently off work isolating, she said.

She added that there was also a worry that the public would just celebrate in groups privately at home - where they could still contract Covid anyway.

Professor James Chalmers, a consultant respiratory physician at Dundee University's school of medicine, has warned the health service is already "under massive pressure, even taking Covid to one side".

He told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme we should expect to see "a substantial wave of hospitalisations through January and February" - coupled with staff absences.