SHOPPING centres, pubs, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to reopen in the coming days as a major lifting of lockdown measures is due to be announced today.

Non-essential stores inside shopping centres are expected to be able to open from Monday while all indoor drinking spots and eateries should be given the go ahead to resume business next Wednesday. Hairdressers will also be able to open their doors again from the same day.

From tomorrow people will be able to meet up with two other households indoors for the first time since March and in larger gathering outdoors.

Organised outdoor contact sports will be able to resume for children and young people from Monday, while on the same day dentists will be allowed to see patients requiring routine treatment.

The First Minister will give an update on the easing of restrictions in Holyrood this afternoon and revealed yesterday that she expected to be giving the go ahead for Scotland to move from phase two to phase three of Scotland’s route out of lockdown.

She said: “Tomorrow I will give an update to Parliament at the slightly earlier time of 12.20pm. I hope then to confirm that Scotland can move from phase 2 of our route map out of lockdown, to phase 3.”

The following indicative dates were set out by the Scottish Government on activities that can resume in Phase 3 when it updated its route map out of lockdown last month.

From July 10 people can meet in extended groups outdoors (with physical distancing); households can meet indoors with up to a maximum of two other households (with physical distancing).

“Non-essential shops inside shopping centres can reopen (following guidance and with physical distancing) from July 13. All holiday accommodation permitted (following relevant guidance) can reopen from July 15.

“Indoor hospitality (subject to physical distancing rules and public health advice) – July 15.”

The document added: “Hairdressers and barbers – with enhanced hygiene measures -– July 15. Museums, galleries, cinemas, monuments, libraries – with physical distancing and other measures (e.g. ticketing in advance) – July 15.”

Yesterday the First Minister announced that tourists travelling to Scotland from Spain will have to continue to quarantine as she rejected some countries on the UK Government’s list of air bridges.

Speaking at her daily briefing on the virus, Sturgeon said the 14-day quarantine restriction will be lifted on July 10 for people returning or visiting from 39 countries with a low prevalence of Covid-19, including Germany, Norway and Malta.

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Other countries which have a lower or not significantly higher prevalence of the virus than Scotland – including France, Greece, the Netherlands, Italy and Poland – will also be included on the list.

But she said the restriction will not be lifted for Spain or Serbia.

She said the “difficult decision” had been driven by the evidence.

“I know how many people from Scotland enjoy travelling to Spain and I know how much we love welcoming Spanish tourists,” she said. “My hope is these restrictions can be relaxed soon, and possibly very soon.”

While Spain is not currently on the approved list, the First Minister said it will be kept under regular review to see if cases of the virus there decrease enough. An update will be given on July 20. She also said if necessary data becomes available, the Scottish Government would consider accepting people travelling from Spanish islands such as the Canaries or Ibiza. She said there will not be “a way around” the quarantine rules by flying into English airports, because Scottish health officials will have the details of those who are travelling back into the UK.