Scottish Government website crashes as lockdown route map revealed
The Scottish Government website, gov.scot., has crashed following Nicola Sturgeon's declaration of her arrangements for bringing Scotland out of lockdown.
In excess of 100,000 individuals attempted to download it in the principal minute, Ms Sturgeon's head of staff uncovered.
The First Minister distributed her point by point four-phase course map as she gave an announcement at Holyrood and confronted inquiries from MSPs.
This prompted a huge number of individuals the nation over attempting to get to the gov.scot website to discover what the new rules implied for them as the website went down around 12:45pm.
Ms Sturgeon declared the concealment of the infection has considered a continuous and cautious facilitating of lockdown limitations in Scotland.
Regardless of illustrating the new moves, the First Minister said that they are not right now set up, and said that there is an opportunity the stricter measures could be reapplied if the spread of the infection increments.
She stated: "I trust they will carry some improvement to individuals' prosperity and personal satisfaction, begin to get our economy going once more, and begin to guide us securely towards another ordinariness.
"It's imperative to push, however, that while the allowed motivations to be out of your home will expand, the default message during stage one will 'Remain at Home' however much as could reasonably be expected.