Pupils to return to classrooms in Scotland but lockdown will continue into March

A member of the public walks past a coronavirus advert on a bus stop in Glasgow. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA

Some pupils in Scotland are to return to schools from next Monday, but other lockdown restrictions are to remain until at least the beginning of March and possibly longer, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The First Minister told MSPs in the Scottish Parliament that lockdown “has been working” with a slowing down of the virus.