Scotland will enter a monthlong lockdown beginning at midnight to mitigate the new coronavirus variant spreading across the United Kingdom.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the news on Monday, saying she was “more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year,” according to the BBC.

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