Rutherglen residents were told to remain in Scotland, but given distant locations such as Edinburgh or Stranraer to travel to.
A mum-of-two from Rutherglen told our sister paper the Daily Record that she was told she should take her two young children to Carrickfergus, in Northern Ireland.Both sons, aged three and six months, had colds.
The older one had been ill, while her younger child had a temperature. Before her three-year-old is allowed to return to nursery, he must provide a negative test.The mum tried to book one, however she was directed to the test centre in Northern Ireland, instead of centres at Glasgow Airport or Ravenscraig.She estimates that it would have taken the family about eight hours to get there, while racking up a.