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PREMIUM The study is tracking cases of hospital admission for Covid among patients who have been vaccinated, versus those unvaccinated. At this stage the data covers first doses rather than second. ONE in 14 patients admitted to hospital since Britains vaccine rollout began had had at least their first inoculation, with over 100 mostly frail elderly patients dying with Covid more than three weeks after receiving the jag. Scientists stressed that the findings were to be expected and that a s...

30 April 2021 • 5:00am Edinburghs streets may be forced to stay empty – and will only get emptier Credit: Chris Watt With the news this week that a draconian social-distancing policy will be applied when cultural venues reopen in Scotland, then will last until further notice, a grim conclusion is becoming unavoidable: this year’s Edinburgh Fringe is a non-starter. That ultra-cautious, and potentially ruinous, policy was unveiled in guidance published by the Scottish Government this week...

"SOMETHING much more like normality" is how Nicola Sturgeon anticipates life in Scotland to be this summer. The process is on its way with pubs, restaurants, gyms and indoor leisure centres all now open again for business. Performing arts venues – theatres and concert halls – are at the end of the line and we accept that. We have had our doors locked for the past 13 months, so we can cope with a few months more. The Government guidelines say that at Level Two performing arts venues can ...

SOME care homes are still failing to provide basic visiting requirements despite coronavirus all but vanishing from premises across Scotland.

Orkney stays in Level Three from April 26, travel to mainland Scotland opens April 13, 2021 at 12:28 pm Orkney is to remain in Level Three from April 26, and travel to the Scottish mainland will be allowed, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. It is planned that all Scotland — including Orkney — will drop to Level Two from May 17, to Level One in June, and to Level Zero in “later June.” In a COVID briefing today, Tuesday, Ms Sturgeon confirmed the news, focussing on island ...

Garage boss will be furious if nightclubs are snubbed in lockdown route map exit THE GARAGE boss has revealed he will be "furious" if nightclubs are snubbed in Scotlands lockdown lifting route map.  Donald MacLeod, who owns the city centre institution and the Cathouse, is hoping to have both of his venues reopened by the end of summer.  Speaking to the Scottish Sun, he told how he remains "worried" over the threat that evening venues could be ignored when the economy begins to reopen a...

A Boneworks Oculus Quest 2 port would let people know if it works on that new headset. So can you play Boneworks on Oculus Quest 2?

PENSIONERS who have been vaccinated against Covid are mixing more than their unvaccinated peers despite guidance not to change behaviour. 

County and Dounby shows cancelled for 2021 February 26, 2021 at 7:30 am County Show and Dounby Show have both been cancelled for 2021. Orkney’s two largest annual agricultural shows have been cancelled for this year, amid uncertainty over ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Both Orkney Agricultural Society and the Orkney West Mainland Agricultural Society have confirmed, today, Friday, that their respective events will not be going ahead, this August. This marks the second year in a row that these...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Prime Minister Jacinda Arderns year of pandemic and hope for Alert Level Zero 26 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 11 minutes to read Almost a month after the first Covid case arrived in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took the very rare step of taking over the airwaves for an "address to the nation". She sat at her desk on March 21, flanked by two New Zealand flags with a pot plant and her photo of Michael Joseph Savage behind her. She was announcing someth...