People urged not to visit Highlands to flee virus
People have been urged to stop travelling to the Highlands in a bid to avoid the coronavirus.
It follows reports of people with second homes or those with campervans travelling to the area in recent days. The issue has prompted Scotland's finance secretary, who is also a Highlands MSP, to tell people to stay away.'Escaping the cities' To date there have been 373 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Scotland, only eight of them have been in the Highlands.
In a tweet posted on Friday evening, Ms Forbes, who represents Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said:"If you live elsewhere, please don't use the Highlands as your means of self-isolation. People live here who are trying to follow government guidance and the continuing flow of campervans and other traffic who appear to be escaping the cities is not helping."
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