RUSHES: Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference June 8th

Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference June 8th; SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: St Andrew's House: INT Nicola Sturgeon MSP (First Minister of Scotland) statement SOT (Part 3 of 4). - And please be assured that we are working hard to provide a more tailored approach for you - so that from the end of July at the latest, you can enjoy more normality in your life. We know that not every person who is shielding faces exactly the same risk. So we are working to develop tools that allow you and your clinicians to take into account your specific condition – and also other factors, like your age or ethnicity – in order to give you a better sense of the risks you face. As part of that, we are also looking for ways to help you understand the changing risk of infection in your local area. Once this evidence is available, we will start providing more specific advice for you, so that you can understand the safest ways to go back to a more normal life. We are working on this with clinicians and scientific advisers across the 4 nations of the UK. It is worth stressing that some of the issues here are complex – and new clinical evidence is becoming available constantly – however we hope to make this more detailed advice available over the next few weeks. Before then – for the period from 18 June onwards - we have been considering what steps we can safely take. We now know that the risk of catching Covid outdoors, if you stay 2 metres apart from other people, is relatively low. And so we currently expect that from Thursday 18 June, anybody who is shielding, unless they live in a nursing or residential care home, will be able to go outdoors for exercise. There will be no limit to how long or how often you can go out each day. We hope that this will provide some boost for your quality of life – particularly if you live in a home which doesn’t have a garden, or which has limited space – without greatly increasing the risks you face. Assuming that this...