The armed forces “will do whatever is needed” to make sure the Covid-19 vaccine reaches every part of the UK, the Defence Secretary said.
Ben Wallace told the Commons that the armed forces are working “to help any one of the four nations”, while defence minister James Heappey confirmed 10,725 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been delivered to Gibraltar with plans for thousands more to reach other British overseas territories in the coming days.
During defence questions, Liberal Democrat MP Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) said: “Scotland is lagging badly behind when it comes to the rollout of the vaccine. Clearly, all of us want to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible. What can our excellent armed forces do to sort this very worrying situation?”
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Nicola Sturgeon has defended the speed of the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Scotland after the lowest recorded daily number of vaccinations were carried out.
On Sunday, just 9,628 patients received their first vaccine dose – the fewest since the Scottish Government began publishing figures on January 11 – taking the total to 575,987.
For consecutive Sundays, the number of vaccinations has fallen to below half the previous day’s figure but the First Minister said she did not know why they were “dipping a little bit on a Sunday”.
Speaking at the Scottish Government’s coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon ruled out “lagging data” and said: “It looks to me as if, for some reason, we are simply falling off a bit on a Sunday … I can’t tell you any more than that right now in terms of the explanation.
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The armed forces “will do whatever is needed” to make sure the Covid-19 vaccine reaches every part of the UK, the Defence Secretary said.
Ben Wallace told the Commons that the armed forces are working “to help any one of the four nations”, while defence minister James Heappey confirmed 10,725 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been delivered to Gibraltar with plans for thousands more to reach other British overseas territories in the coming days.
During defence questions, Liberal Democrat MP Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) said: “Scotland is lagging badly behind when it comes to the rollout of the vaccine. Clearly, all of us want to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible. What can our excellent armed forces do to sort this very worrying situation?”