Almost 10,000 Shetlanders have received flu and coronavirus vaccine boosters since the programme began in autumn with 6,000 eligible patients still to be vaccin
THE NATIONAL autumn/winter vaccination programme for flu and Covid is now underway in Shetland, with the main programme running until mid-December. Due to the newly identified Covid variant BA.2.86, people aged 75 and over, those who have weakened immune systems and people who.
NHS Shetland’s director of public health says there is “no sustained trend” in the numbers of people dying locally from alcohol-related causes. Dr Susan Laidlaw was commenting after the publication this week of alcohol-specific death statistics for Scotland in 2022. These.
NHS Shetland has reminded people that Covid and other respiratory illnesses will still be circulating in the community - amid reports of an increase in infection after the Tall Ships. Director of public health Dr Susan Laidlaw, however, reiterated that community testing for.