Army starts to set up 80 coronavirus vaccine sites in Scotland January 18, 2021, 12:59 pm Members of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard carry out a reconnaissance before setting up a Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Lanarkshire (Jane Barlow/PA) The British Army has started to help set up 80 coronavirus vaccination centres throughout Scotland as part of the largest peacetime resilience operation carried out by the armed forces. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed the deployment of 98 soldiers over the next 28 days to identify and prepare suitable locations for NHS Scotland to administer the Covid-19 vaccine. Soldiers will organise vaccine delivery to the sites, prepare storage for medicines and equipment and how to register and record patients as well as sorting car parking and traffic flow around the sites.