Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would deviate from the UK Government's lockdown measures if her advisers told her it was in the best interests of her country.
Ms Sturgeon told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "If I was being advised, and if the judgment I was applying to that advice told me that I had to do something different to the rest of the UK because it was right and necessary to continue to control coronavirus in Scotland, of course I would do that.
"I think people would find it astounding if I said anything different to that.
"But I will be driven by what advice, science and my own judgment is telling me the right thing to do is.
"I think, for the reasons I've set out about viruses not respecting borders but also for simplicity of messaging, I think the more consistency we can have across the UK in how we do these things, the better.
"But all of us have a duty and I think all leaders, I guess, we may be reaching certainly different judgments on different things at different times, but we're all, I'm pretty sure, trying to do our very best here to deal with a very challenging and a very difficult situation."
