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ALL Scottish adults should receive the first dose of the Covid vaccine within the next eight months, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

THE goal of immunising 400,000 Scots a week against Covid could be derailed unless more is done to cut “ridiculous bureaucratic hold ups” that…

Further coronavirus restrictions could be introduced in Scotland if the new rules do not have enough effect, the Deputy First Minister has warned.

Nicola Sturgeon covid update RECAP: Hospital admissions quite a bit above first wave peak All the latest on Scotlands fight against coronavirus ahead of this afternoons daily briefing. The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Hospital admissions have seen another steep rise today, with 1,664 people now in hospital with coronavirus - an overnight increase of 126. Speaking at todays daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the figure was now "quite a bit above the peak o...

Scotland’s hospitals are at crisis point as case numbers approach the worst case scenario predicted by scientists.NHS Lanarkshire, Scotland’s third biggest health board, had 46 empty beds last night

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Updated: 12 Jan 2021, 0:20 NICOLA Sturgeon was yesterday urged to speed up  Scotland’s “sluggish” Covid jab rollout — as it emerged  the proportion of people vaccinated here has fallen behind England. The First Minister said 163,377 patients received their first dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford/AstraZeneca immunisation between December 9 and Sunday. ⚠️ Read our  5 5 The proportion of Scots vaccinated has fallen behind EnglandCredit: AFP But critics slammed the rollout...

Nicola Sturgeon says the spread of coronavirus is now no less “serious and severe” a problem in the Highlands than it is in the central belt.

Updated: January 11, 2021, 8:57 am © Russell Cheyne/ PA Wire A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Edinburgh, Scotland, as the government continues to ramp up the vaccination programme. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Business optimism in Scotland is at its h...

MORE than half of all Scotland’s care home residents have had the first jab of the coronavirus vaccination, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed.