LONDON (Reuters) – Scotland will introduce additional nationwide restrictions on household gatherings that go further than UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new rules, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said, to halt the second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

“We intend, as Northern Ireland did yesterday, to also introduce nationwide additional restrictions on household gatherings, similar to those already in place in the west of Scotland,” Sturgeon said on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Kate Holton and Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Alistair Smout)

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