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Due to “high levels of Covid”, the Scottish Government said yesterday added the two cities to a list that already includes Bolton and Blackburn.
New health laws will come into force on Monday fining Scots if they travel to Manchester where cases of the variant have surged.
The Indian variant is 50 percent more transmissible than the Kent variant of coronavirus, the strain of COVID-19 that started a second wave at Christmas.
SNP led Scottish Government ministers said Scots could be fined £60 up to to a maximum of £960 if they repeatedly break the rules.
But the Mayor of Greater Manchester said the Scottish Government “had not been consulted” on the move and branded it “unnecessary.”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said at the coronavirus briefing yesterday, added: “Anyone travelling elsewhere in the Greater Manchester or Lancashire area, I’d ask to think carefully about whether your journey is really necessary because we do see cases rising across that region.”
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