First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made the announcement to parliament this afternoon.
She said: “Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders have had consistently low level of covid for some weeks now. There were 23 cases per 100,00o in Dumfries and Galloway last week. We have therefore concluded that both of these areas will move from level two to level one from 6 pm on Friday.”
Meanwhile, the first doses of the new Pfizer covid vaccine are being administered to frontline health and care staff at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary today.
As of today, there have been 1185 positive tests in Dumfries and Galloway overall and seven people are still in hospital with covid related conditions.
