domestically will complement the uk wide travel restrictions confirmed over the weekend which aim to reduce the risk of additional cases of the new variant into the country, ten counties from southern africa have been added to the travel of red leicester so far. anyone travelling back to scotland from any of those ten countries must enter quarantine for ten days. in addition, anyone arriving in scotland from anywhere outside the common travel area is now required to take a pcr cover test on or before the second day of their arrival, we are advising should be on the second day and is a self isolated until they get the results of that test back. the scottish government was myjudgment as it would be sensible given the incubation period of the virus and on a precautionary basis for these travel rules to be tightened further on a four nations basis. yesterday, the first minister of wales and i suggested to the prime minister until we know more about omicron
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