Scotland will head into a new national lockdown from midnight, with the first minister giving just 10 hours notice of a new legal requirement to stay at home for all but essential purposes. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the lockdown measures were similar to those put in place during the previous CCP virus peak in the spring. She said the new variant of the virus in the UK—which she cited as being 70 percent more transmissible, according to research—had dealt a “massive blow” to the hopes raised by the rollout of vaccines. Sturgeon said she wanted the lockdown to bring the virus under control before a surge in cases of the new variant reaches the levels currently seen in London and southeast England. The NHS in Scotland has been coping better with the pandemic than other places in the UK until now. Scotland’s lockdown measures will last until …