That is all from the live page for today. There will be further coverage on the BBC Scotland website.

• Reporting Scotland on BBC One Scotland will have the latest news and analysis following the first minister's statement
• The prime minister Boris Johnson will deliver a public address at 8pm and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will deliver her televised statement at 8.05pm - you can hear them on Radio Scotland and watch in full on BBC One Scotland.
• At 8:10pm on BBC One Scotland, a news special with Rebecca Curran and Martin Geissler will be broadcast.

In much of the west of Scotland, people have not been allowed to meet in each others homes for some weeks.

That measure has now been extended to the whole of Scotland.

This is stricter than the rules in England but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was the right stance to take to suppress the spread of the virus.

The regulations come into force on Friday but Ms Sturgeon urged everyone to comply from tomorrow.

The rules will be reviewed after three weeks.

The restrictions are different in public indoor spaces such as pubs, cafes and restaurants. Here it is the rule of six: two households with a maximum of six people.

Outdoors, the rule is also up to six people from two households. Children under 12 are exempt from these limits.

There is no limit on children under 12 playing outdoors.

Young people aged 12 to 18 are also exempt from the two household limit and can meet outdoors in groups of up to six.

From Friday, bars and restaurants will have to close at 10pm. That is the same as the new rule in England.

Other advice includes:

• Work from home if possible
• Do not car share with other households
• Do not travel overseas during the October school holiday unless essential
• The dates for the return of fans to sports stadiums has been postponed

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Tanja Lister, who owns the Kylesku Hotel in Sutherland, tells Drivetime there is "very scant evidence" that hospitality is a real causal factor in transmission of the virus.

Ms Lister points out hotels like hers have spent a lot of money making their premises safer.

She says more study needs to be made of the claim 5% of positive cases are coming from a hospitality setting.

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Prof Jason Leitch tells Drivetime the government has to make choices and schools have been prioritised.

"'We have decided to keep schools open pretty much at all costs," he says.

Prof Leitch says the government believes that by restricting the hospitality sector a little "headroom" can be bought.

Scotland's national clinical director says the pub and restaurant curfew of 10pm is across the whole of the UK.

Mike Tibbert, vice president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), has criticised the first minister for telling Scots not to book travel overseas for the October break.

He called the comments "wholly gratuitous, and extremely damaging for the Scottish travel industry".

Mr Tibbert said: "This year has been catastrophic for travel agents and the entire travel sector and today's comments could well be the final nail in its coffin.

"It's utterly short-sighted to consider that this story ends with our members having had no 2020 income, but the stark facts are that, without immediate and targeted stimulus for the travel sector, Scotland will lose its global connectivity as airlines cut routes.

"It's no idle warning. It is probable, that loss of connections would cause irreversible long-term damage to our whole economy."

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Nicola Sturgeon has urged Scottish families to not book holidays abroad during the October school holidays.

In her address to the Scottish parliament, the first minister said Scottish families should treat the autumn term holiday as an opportunity to limit social contact with others.

And she told MSPs proposals for a temporary "circuit break" lockdown over the school break were under review.

That was a policy suggested by the UK government to interrupt virus spread.

The idea is that a short, sharp period of tightened restrictions for everyone could curb the spread of coronavirus.

However, Ms Sturgeon said: "The Scottish government has not made any decision at this stage to implement such a policy - however, we are actively keeping it under review."

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Professor Jason Leitch tells BBC Radio Scotland he is not sure the restrictions in Scotland are stricter than in England.

Scotland's national clinical director says that the big difference is in the household meeting restrictions.

He says the biggest risk of spreading the virus is in the household setting and that is why it has been targeted.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled measures including a nationwide ban on visiting other people's homes.

Every single health board has had cases of Covid-19, he says, and that is why a nationwide approach is being taken.

"We need to stop inter-household transmission," argues the professor, although he accepts the restrictions are harsh.

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A children's charity has said that exempting under 12s from restrictions on outdoor meeting was a welcome move.

Mary Glasgow, chief executive of Children 1st, said: "Making it possible for children under 12 to play together outdoors and allowing young people aged 12 to 18 to meet outdoors in groups of six is essential to protect the social and emotional development of Scotland’s youngsters."

“Together with the continuation of informal child care arrangements this will lift some of the burden and stress on families, many of whom continue to face the most challenging time of their lives."

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Sofie Ford, who is the owner of Where The Monkey Sleeps in Glasgow, says the restrictions are very challenging for city centre businesses.

The sandwich bar owner says most of her customers are office workers who have not returned yet.

The further restrictions in the west of Scotland have made it difficult for smaller businesses.

"The city centre may be populated by just the chain stores," she warns.

"Small businesses may not survive this."

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Stephen Montgomery, the owner of the Townhead Hotel in Lockerbie and the spokesman for the Scottish Hospitality Group, says the new restrictions are a "disaster, certainly for our sector".

Mr Montgomery told Drivetime that hospitality takes most of its money at the weekend between 9pm and midnight so it will lose 25% of its takings.

He says his members are facing closures and redundancies, adding "yet again hospitality is being a scapegoat".

"We're being punished in every way," he says.

Lisa Summers
BBC Scotland Health Correspondent

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Opinions among health and science experts have diverged on the best way to get through this critical stage in the pandemic. Some favour a strategy that lets the virus spread more freely but protects the vulnerable. But others disagree.

One infectious diseases consultant told me it is too new and too complex a disease to simply segregate society. At some point older people will have to come into contact with younger people. What about those considered vulnerable that work in the likes of education or healthcare? And we still don’t know enough about the long term effects for younger people who have contracted the disease.

The NHS has been on an emergency footing for most of this year. The additional restrictions should allow hospitals to carry on with the limited amount of routine work it has manged to restart.

Most working in frontline services welcome today's announcement, as they start to see a rise in hospital admissions, they worry it won’t take much to have an impact on everything else they are trying to do.

But stricter measures also have consequences for mental health. Psychiatrists have already warned about the serious implications of isolation and loneliness on anxiety levels in both the young and old. Even protecting the health service is a difficult balancing act.

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Nic Wood, who owns the Signature pub group, says there was an inevitability about the first minister's announcement.

But he adds: "I have to ask the question: Where is the evidence for this?"

Mr Wood tells BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime he is not aware of any cases among his contacts in the industry.

He says: "I guess what people need to remember is they are coming to a controlled environment for people to interact.

"We've got all these safeguards in place to provide a low risk and a safe environment for people to come to.

"I'm not really sure why we are the ones being penalised."

Mr Wood, who has 22 bars across Scotland, adds that he does not accept the logic behind the curfew and believes bars are being used as "the scapegoat".

Children and young people will be exempt from some of the lockdown restrictions on group gatherings announced by the first minister.

Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that under-12s will not be included in the limit of six people meeting outdoors and the limit of two households.

It means there will be no restriction on "the ability of younger children to play together outside".

Those aged 12 to 18 will be exempt from the two household limit outdoors.

Ms Sturgeon said they would be able to meet outdoors in groups of up to six - but "we will need to monitor this carefully".

"Let me stress, this is outdoors only," the first minister confirmed.

The ban on meeting indoors in houses applies to all ages, with some speciifc exemptions.

The first minister has announced new restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus across Scotland.

In a statement at Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon unveiled measures including a nationwide ban on visiting other people's homes and a 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants.

With coronavirus cases on the rise, the Scottish government has judged these new restrictions will provide the best chance of avoiding tougher or longer lasting measures further down the line.

A ban on households meeting in homes is already in place in the west of Scotland. Now it's being rolled out across Scotland.

• Reporting Scotland will have the latest news and analysis following the first minister's statement
• The prime minister Boris Johnson will deliver a public address at 8pm and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will deliver her televised statement at 8.05pm - you can hear them on Radio Scotland and watch in full on BBC One Scotland.
• At 8:10pm on BBC One Scotland, a news special with Rebecca Curran and Martin Geissler will be broadcast.

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Professor Jason Leitch, who is Scotland's national clinical director, will be on Drivetime after 5pm.

Reevel Alderson
BBC Scotland Home Affairs correspondent

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With additional restrictions being imposed in Scotland in an attempt to stem the advance of Covid-19, questions are being asked about whether police will enforce the law more rigorously.

Until now Police Scotland have tried to operate with the consent of the public, using the four Es - Engage, Explain, Encourage and Enforce - with enforcement only as a last resort.

Compliance with the regulations in the early part of lockdown was very good and even by early August as restrictions were eased, only 6% of 62,000 contacts between police and the public resulted in enforcement action, either a fixed penalty notice (FPN) or arrest.

But a statement from the National Police Chiefs Council - which includes Scotland's chief constable Iain Livingstone - said the small minority of those continuing to flout the rules “should expect to have action enforcement taken against them."

It said police will continue to work with their communities and only issue fines as a last resort. But it added: "The time for encouraging those who knowingly flout the rules with no sense of guilt about the risks they are presenting has passed."

It is likely that in these circumstances officers would be quicker to issue an FPN than has been the case.

Enforcement action in England now also includes the possibility of fines of up to £10,000 for individuals breaching quarantine or self-isolation regulations or for businesses failing to comply with social distancing and mask-wearing rules. So far the Scottish government has not announced plans to follow suit.

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Prof Raj Bhopal says with a Covid vaccine it could take two to three years to "get this sorted out".

But he warns, without one, it could take up to 10 years.

Tracy Black, director of business organisation CBI Scotland, said a second national lockdown would be devastating for the economy so it was right that the first minister prioritised bringing infections under control.

But Ms Black said earlier closing times for Scotland’s pubs, cafes and restaurants was a "bitter pill" for a sector already hugely impacted by the crisis.

"With prolonged remote working also looking likely, there will undoubtedly be a cost to our city centre economies," she said.

“There must now be a new plan to support businesses this autumn.

"This should start with a successor to the Job Retention Scheme and allowing cash-strapped businesses to defer their VAT payments from the last quarter – a no-brainer given this latest blow to our economy."

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Prof Raj Bhopal says income and wealth are critical for the health of the population.

Without both he warns there will be increases in heart disease, cancer and suicides.

The expert tells BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime: "People who have been arguing for zero Covid and no deaths, well they are not living in the real world."

He says in general there are 150 deaths in Scotland every day and 12,000 in the UK every week.

Prof Bhopal adds: "We have to put things in balance. We are not going to get down to one death. We are not going to get down to zero deaths. That is not the reality."

He says the current policy is predicated on the fact a vaccine will be available by the spring.

Prof Bhopal also cautions that any strategies should consider the possibility that one might not be ready by then.