Forgotten Island: Barra's hidden health care crisis
With its pristine beaches and close-knit community, the small Hebridean island of Barra is often held up as the archetypal rural idyll. But in recent weeks the 1200-strong community has found itself at the heart of a serious Covid-19 outbreak. Three cases were reported on 13 January and by last Wednesday that number had risen to 50. On Friday, with the hospital on Lewis reaching capacity, Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman announced that the whole of the Western Isles would move into level four lockdown conditions with immediate effect. So on Barra there have been no children playing on football...
Source: theferret.scot