Coronavirus update: Nicola Sturgeon says lockdown measures could last 'beyond end of the year'

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube:    / @thelondonstandard   Lockdown measures could last until 2021 with social distancing expected to be "a fact of life for a long time to come", the First Minister has warned. Nicola Sturgeon said the restrictions to tackle the coronavirus outbreak are doing “damage” to Scotland but that a return to "normal" was "not on the cards". Describing how the country needed to find a better "balance", Ms Sturgeon warned that social distancing measures will be "a fact of life for a long time to come", possibly even "beyond the end of the year". She made the comments during a briefing about a paper, published on Thursday, which discusses the plan for how Scotland might work towards easing lockdown regulations. Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ni...