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Sophie Law

Coronavirus Scotland: Full list of people who can leave their home and go to work during lockdown

This is a full list of people who can leave their home in Scotland during the coronavirus lockdown.

Last night, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ordered people to stay at home in a countrywide lockdown.

The drastic measures are to stop the spread of Covid-19 in the country, as the total of people to have died in the UK reached 335 - 14 of them in Scotland.

In a statement to the nation, Johnson said Brits must not leave their houses unless absolutely necessary, should work form home and not visit family and friends.

Those considered key workers are still allowed to leave to do their jobs, but who classifies?

Here is a full list of key worker by the UK Government:

In a statement to the nation, Johnson said Brits must not leave their houses unless absolutely necessary, should work form home and not visit family and friends (PA)

 

Health and social care

This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

Education and childcare

This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

Key public services

This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

Last night, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ordered people to stay at home in a countrywide lockdown (Daily Record)

Local and national government

This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

Food and other necessary goods

This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

Public safety and national security

This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

Transport

This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

Utilities, communication and financial services

This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

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