The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has banned people from Bolton from travelling to Scotland.
This move is in response to the spread of the Indian variant in Bolton and some other local authorities in England.
Bolton has the highest number of cases of the Indian variant in the UK.
From Monday onwards travel restrictions will be imposed between Scotland the three local authority areas – Bedford, Bolton and Blackburn and Darwen.
The First Minister said at a Scottish coronavirus briefing: “If you are planning to visit these areas in the next few days please consider whether you need to make your visit or whether it can be delayed.”
She said it was hoped these rules would not be in place for very long, but added they were “a further way of helping us reduce the risk that any more of this new variant comes into Scotland while we are trying to deal with outbreaks of it we have right now”.
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