What's The Safest Way To Spend Christmas And The Festive Period?
27th November 2020
The safest way to spend Christmas and the festive period is to stay within your own household, in your own home and your own local area.
Whilst we are providing guidance on how people can spend Christmas time with others to help prevent loneliness and isolation, our advice is that wherever possible you should keep in touch with friends and family members from other households through technology - or, if you decide to meet in person, you should minimise the numbers and duration, and if possible meet out of doors. Consider a Christmas walk with family, rather than a meal indoors.
Just because we are providing advice on how to spend Christmas with other people, should you consider that necessary for your own personal circumstances, it does not mean you have to do it, and you should not feel pressured to spend Christmas in or with another household.
Over the past few months, we have all made sacrifices to keep ourselves and loved ones safe. Now that effective vaccines are on the horizon and the hope of a return to more normality by next spring is growing, we must all consider carefully the risk that is associated with coming together for Christmas.
What rules will change and for how long?
During the period 23rd December to 27th December inclusive, there will be a limited relaxation of the COVID-19 rules to allow people to travel within the UK to spend Christmas together, in "Bubbles" of up to three households if they wish. The rules about what a bubble is and what it means for you and your household are below.
This is being done not to encourage people to mix with other households, but because the Scottish Government recognises that isolation and loneliness can hit people particularly hard over the Christmas period and that some may therefore feel it necessary to do so.
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Read all the complications and detailed answers but basically the safest thing to do is STAY in your own home this Christmas.
