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In Scotland 1,320,074 people have officially received the first dose of the Covid vaccine and 20,409 have received a second dose, according to Scottish government figures.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this week that there was now hard evidence that vaccinations were reducing the Covid death toll.
This page looks at the key vaccine data in Scotland. Figures were last updated at 14:00 on 17 February.
Is Scotland on target for vaccinations?
In Scotland
16 February.
1.1 million in the four highest priority groups by 15 February.
By then all people aged over 70, care home residents, front-line health and social care staff and the clinically extremely vulnerable should have been offered a first dose.
Royal Highland Show site turned into mass vaccination centre
4 February 2021 |
A new vaccine centre has launched at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh
The Royal Highland Show s ground will be used as a mass vaccination centre with the capacity to vaccinate more than 1,000 people every day.
The site, which usually hosts over 220 events attracting over 1 million visitors a year, has been largely dormant due to Covid-19 restrictions.
However, the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) Members’ Pavilion, a £5m venue completed days before lockdown in March 2020, will now become a vaccination centre.
According to the society, the Edinburgh-based site will have the capacity to vaccinate more than 1,000 people every day, seven days a week .
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Members of the Vaccination Team work at the vaccination centre set up at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Since their introduction, government policy changed from giving the second dose at 21 and 28 days respectively to giving it up to 12 weeks for both.
This was made on the basis that both vaccines confer significant protection after the first dose and that the greater public health priority is to maximise coverage of first dose rather than of second dose.
The Pfizer jab was approved in early December and has therefore been used for the earliest parts of NHS Lothian’s vaccination programme.
The Royal Highland Centre will provide the capacity for up to 1000 Covid vaccinations a day INGLISTON S Royal Highland Centre has opened its doors to support the national vaccine rollout – providing the capacity to vaccinate more than 1000 people every day. The £5 million Members Pavillion – which was completed days before lockdown last year – will become a mass vaccination centre, having been largely dormant due to Covid-19 restrictions. RHASS chairman, Bill Gray, commented: “While this was not what we envisaged the first event at our new Members Pavilion to look like, we are delighted that we were able to offer it to aid in the battle against Covid-19.
Ladies wore floral patterns and polka dots; a couple arrived, each with big black medical grade affairs covering their face. There was a Hibs version and Hearts version and another which read “Staggs