Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab insists steps to ease lockdown will only be taken if it is safe to do so, subject to conditions and monitoring.

Mr Raab adds: "Even when we do, we need people, as the country as a whole needs, to stay alert."

He says: "As we move out of the lockdown, very carefully with incremental changes, we do need to stay alert and the critical thing is to stop a resurgence in the virus which ends up with a second spike enough to go back into lockdown."

For example, people may begin going outside to exercise more but they must continue social distancing he explains.

Mr Raab says the UK government respects that different parts of the UK and different regions of the UK can move at different speeds.

He says the governments will "work as a team" where possible but he also respects Nicola Sturgeon's stance.

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Good Morning Scotland is continuing as it is hearing from Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

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John Swinney tells Good Morning Scotland that the message needs to be "crystal clear" that the country still faced a "very significant threat" from coronavirus.

He said it was not the time to relax lockdown messages and that the infection rate of the virus would increase if people did not continue to comply with the Scottish government's message.

Mr Swinney said people had made "big sacrifices" over the last seven weeks to get the R number from over three to under one.

"It's very close to one. If it goes over one it becomes a problem for us again so we don't want to undermine the really big achivements that members of the public have made in getting us to where we are at," he said.

• Why might the R number be higher in Scotland?

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The lockdown has had a "wide" effect on operations at energy giant SSE, according to its chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies.

He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland that more than 10,000 of its employees were able to work from home and more protection had been given to staff who have to repair faults and be present in control rooms.

Mr Phillips-Davies said the firm was used to working with the UK's devolved administrations, which had sometimes approached issues differently in the past.

"I think they're all very focused on making sure we do the right thing," he said.

"We'll be looking very hard over the first couple of days of this week at the guidance, making sure we comply with that."

He added that SS had paid out more than half of a £1m fund to businesses and voluntary groups dealing with the lockdown, including a gin distillery making hand sanitiser and a delivery service for vulnerable people.

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John Swinney says the information available about the transmission of Covid-19 when people are moving in open air means there is no need to prevent the public from exercising as frequently as they want.

He told Good Morning Scotland: "What people are being told is that that you can leave your home to go for shopping, you can leave your home for essential medical trips and you can leave your home for exercise, not just once or day, but as often as you like."

But Mr Swinney added that the message beyond that was to "stay at home" and no other changes had been made to the Scottish government's position.

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Scotland's deputy first minister says he is "relieved" there has not been a total lifting of the lockdown in England as he feared might happen last week.

John Swinney said there was not much difference in "policy substance" between England and Scotland, but that the messaging had now changed.

"I think what's also helpful about what happened yesterday is an acceptance and an acknowledgement that there may be a need for us to move at different paces in different parts of the UK, which has always been the rational position that we have put forward," he said.

Mr Swinney said the Scottish government was "talking actively" to other devolved administrations and the UK government but added there needed to be "more intense dialogue" around some of the sensitive questions.

"Messages that are put out to membbers of the public really matter - because what we can see over the course of the last six or seven weeks is that the messaging to the public has been really successful," he said.

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The chief executive of Edinburgh International Airport tells Good Morning Scotland that the news people arriving in the UK will soon need to go into a 14-day quarantine would have a "very serious" impact on the industry.

Gordon Dewar said that the "significant backward step" would have an impact on people's desire to travel and begged the question on whether airlines would continue to fly because of the lack of demand.

There are about 30,000 jobs connected to air travel in Scotland.

"It's unhelpful because it's very uncertain and it's deeply unhelpful because it appears we're going into stricter rules rather than looking forward to getting back to something approaching normality," Mr Dewar said.

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French passengers will be exempt from quarantine measures that will come into force in the UK amid the pandemic.

Boris Johnson said on Sunday the measures would be imposed on people arriving in the UK, to prevent Covid-19 being brought in from overseas.

UK airlines have previously said they had been told that any quarantine period would lost for 14 day.

Government sources have also indicated that people arriving from the Republic of Ireland would not have to self-isolate.

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A professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh says it appears that the prime minister was trying to convey two different messages at the same time in his address to the nation on Sunday evening.

Prof Linda Bauld told Good Morning Scotland Boris Johnson was trying to strike a difficult balance between protecting public health, but also the state of the economy which also has a huge impact on future health and wellbeing.

But she said she was not persauded that the "stay alert" message was helpful, as it was open to interpretation.

Prof Bauld also told BBC Scotland the strategy outlined by Boris Johnson was clearly not a "unified approach" across the UK, with Scotland's first minister clearly taking a more cautious approach.

"I think it's not a four nations approach, I think there is some divergence but I think Nicola Sturgeon's very clear about she wants to continue to do," she added.

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Lives could be put at risk by an influx of companies offering to clean up potential coronavirus hotspots, a leading cleaning firm has warned.

SafeGroup boss Steve Broughton said the market was being "flooded" by firms that lacked the experience or equipment to operate "safely or correctly".

Mr Broughton said the trend "worries me because something will go wrong".

Concerns have also been raised by industry standards and training body, the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc).

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The head of the Horticultural Trades Association industry says the news that garden centres can reopen later this week in England and Wales is "excellent" for the industry.

James Barnes, who is also the former owner of Dobbies, told Good Morning Scotland that the lockdown has been "financially catastrophic" for the grower industry which has had very few outlets to sell their plans.

"I'm assured that there will be some detail and some follow through today and that is likely to confirm the position that garden centres in England can open on Wednesday," he said.

But Mr Barnes added that there was a "certain illogicality" about stores not being allowed to open in Scotland with the UK's largest garden centre operators having "big cross-border businesses".

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People in Scotland can now go outside to exercise more than once a day, following a slight change to the lockdown guidance.

Exercise should be done close to home, alone or with members of their household, and people should maintain a two metre (6ft) distance from others.

Meeeting up with others is still not allowed and barbeques, picnics and sunbathing are not permitted.

Nicola Sturgeon says the move will bring "health and wellbeing benefits", especially to those who live in flats and have children.

Find out how Scotland's papers are reporting the lockdown "split" here.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has stressed the "stay at home" message remains in place in Scotland after Boris Johnson announced his "conditional plan" to reopen society.

During his statement, the prime minister urged people to "stay alert, control the virus and save lives".

But Ms Sturgeon said there should be a "simpler" message and that people in Scotland should still stay at home.

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Good morning and welcome to live coverage of the latest developments in Scotland around the Covid-19 crisis on Monday, 11 May. This is main news so far:

• A slight change to the lockdown rules means people in Scotland are now able to venture outside for exercise more than once day.
• Nicola Sturgeon has stressed the "stay at home" message remains in place in Scotland.
• It came after Boris Johnson announced his "conditional plan" to reopen society in England.
• The prime minister is due to give further details of his plan to lift lockdown in the House of Commons later.