Scotland visit row: PM accused of shocking error of judgement but No 10 insisted trip was Covid-secure BORIS Johnson has been forced to defend his controversial visit last week to a vaccine production site in Scotland, which the SNP leadership condemned as “utterly reckless,” after it emerged a number of Covid cases had been reported there in January prior to his arrival. The Prime Minister insisted no one had raised with him the virus infection cases at the Valneva site in Livingston and he made clear it was his job to visit all parts of the UK, declaring: “No one is going to stop me.”
BORIS Johnson was accused of putting publicity before public health after he visited a Livingston vaccine laboratory at the centre of a West Lothian Covid outbreak. According to the Daily Record, a public health probe at the Valeneva site uncovered 14 coronavirus cases – about one in eight of the workforce. The firm’s chief financial officer, David Lawrence, said Downing Street had been informed ahead of the Tory chief’s trip last Thursday. He told the paper: “They were made aware we’d had some reported cases and had implemented our control procedures.” However, in the Commons on Wednesday, Johnson said that wasn’t true and nobody raised that issue with me before or since .
Covid-19 cases continue to rise at care home near Inverness By Alasdair Fraser
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Updated: 12:00, 02 February 2021
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Meallmore Lodge care home near Daviot.
Cases of Covid-19 infection at a care home hit by a mass outbreak have risen overnight to 56.
NHS Highland says that, Meallmore Lodge, seven miles south of Inverness near Daviot, has now had 27 positive tests among residents and 29 among staff â an increase of three in all from yesterday
The health authority s updated figures follow an initial report of the outbreak on Thursday last week where a total of 35 people were affected.