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Police Scotland have been given new powers to enforce lockdown measures within workplaces.

Scots are currently only allowed to leave home for one daily form of exercise, shopping to gather essential food or medication, or taking supplies to a vulnerable person.

Everyone has been advised to observe a 2 metre distance and to work from home unless it is impossible to do so.

Officers were originally given the power to disperse people who were found to be flouting coronavirus lockdown rules, and issue a fine, on Friday, March 27.

Nicola Sturgeon announced the new regulations would now allow for officers to enforce lockdown measures within workplaces.

The move hopes to curb any work taking place in businesses not adhering to social distancing guidelines.

Ms Sturgeon was quick to add cops would not be "routinely patrolling office blocks".

It was her hope, she said, that the police would use "dialogue" to enforce the laws.

The First Minister stressed that a timeline for the end of the lockdown period was not yet known.