Covid vaccine arrives in Ayrshire as health chief reveals who'll get it first

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Covid-19 vaccines to clerical staff before medics, we can reveal.Outraged nurses contacted the Record to blow the whistle on the “fiasco” at Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital.They claimed staff in medical records and estates management – who do not deal with patients – had been given the new vaccine first.An insider said: “The events of the last two days have left me and my colleagues outraged.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncillors voted to close the schools in North Ayrshire early after the area recorded the highest weekly Covid  infection rate in Scotland.But is claimed the Scottish Government refused to allow the region’s schools to switch to online learning.North Ayrshire’s virus case rate hit 205 per 100,000 between December 12 and 18 according to Public Health Scotland figures.  It is the only council region

Jason Leitch said further research was required on the latest mutation of the virus but added experts were so far confident it would not be able to resist the jabs currently being rolled out to health workers and care home residents. It comes as UK health secretary Matt Hancock warned today the country faced an “enormous challenge” controlling the new strain after scientists found it was able to spread more rapidly.

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Health chiefs have launched a new blitz to combat so-called ‘ Long Covid ’ in Scotland.

coronavirus vaccine. Scientist Steven Wooding set on a hunt to find out how far in the queue he might be to get the potential cure for Covid-19.

immunisation programme in its history. This week the first jabs were carried out by the NHS in a huge breakthrough as the fightback against the C ovid-19 pandemic begins.

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Edinburgh Airport today in a scathing attack on SNP ministers over a perceived lack of support for the aviation sector. Gordon Dewar told members of the Scottish Parliament's Covid committee the policy of asking passengers flying into the country to self-isolate upon arrival had simply not worked.

injections were offered in almost all regions, while Shetland and the Western Isles residents will get them this week. Sturgeon announced the progress as another 50 people died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

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link.The owner of Northcare – who runs two care homes in East Kilbride – confirmed she had been given notice that residents and staff in Rosaburn House would be vaccinated by next week.Dates have yet to be confirmed for Lindsayfield Lodge - Northcare’s other facility in the town.Managing director of Northcare, Margaret Sawers, told the News: “We have no reason to have cause for concern over the delivery of vaccinations – the Scottish Government now need to provide what they have said they will

coronavirus vaccine. The decision to use a 0300 number - rather than a free phone - came under fire from disgruntled healthcare workers and it has now been revoked by NHS Lothian with promises staff will be reimbursed.

Covid-19 vaccine. We told how Maggie Keenan, 90, received the ground breaking jab at 6.31am on Tuesday in Coventry.

will be given jabs at 23 sites across Scotland under the initial phase of a national programme which will eventually see millions of people protected against coronavirus. Among those who will be first in line for the vaccine is Andrew Mencnarowski, a senior staff nurse at the Western General in Edinburgh.

welcome breakthrough, it will take several months at least for the vaccination to be rolled out across all age groups.Nicola Sturgeon met with the vaccinators who will be the very first to receive the jab on December 8. Care home residents and other health workers are next in line.

First Minister visited the Western General in Edinburgh to hear how health bosses are preparing for the long-awaited covid vaccination programme. Frontline healthworkers will be the first people in Scotland to receive vaccines on Tuesday before the programme is rolled out across the country.

coronavirus should be ‘completely confident’ about receiving the vaccine, a medical chief has said. Chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) June Raine has urged everyone who is eligible to get the jag when it’s available to them.