Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the rules on physical distancing can be eased from 19 July as the vaccination programme will have delivered protection to all over-50s in Scotland by that stage.
The First Minister told MSPs that if the jabs target is reached she hoped all parts of Scotland can move to level 0 restrictions in mid-July.
That would mean that the limits for household gatherings indoors will increase from that date, allowing up to 200 people will be able to attend weddings and funerals.
At Level 0 people can meet socially in groups of eight people from four households in their homes or up to ten people from four households in public places like cafes or pubs.
Sturgeon said that indoors the general indoor physical distancing requirement will be reduced from two metres to one metre and the need to keep apart outdoors will be lifted.
However the limits for organised outdoor events, like football matches and concerts, will be kept in place.
To encourage people to stay outdoors as much as possible the limits on informal outdoor social gatherings, in private gardens for example, will also be removed at this stage.
Sturgeon said: “So rather than the current rules for level 0 – which state that up to 15 people from 15 households can meet outdoors – informal social gatherings of any size will be allowed.”
She added: “We will however keep in place temporarily the rules and processes currently applicable at level 0 for organised outdoor events, given that these can attract much larger crowds.”
“If we can move - as hoped - to level 0 on 19 July, that will be a significant step back to normality. But we have always been clear that level 0 cannot be an endpoint.”
Sturgeon added that it “would be possible and proportionate to lift the major remaining legal restrictions on 9 August” the next milestone review of the rules.
She said: “We will consider and make a final assessment nearer the time of whether - as we hope - this could include the lifting of the legal requirement to physically distance indoors as well as outdoors.”
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