First care home to receive vaccine in Scotland hit with new Covid outbreak

coronavirus. A total of 30 pensioners at West Park Care Home in Leslie, near Glenrothes, have tested positive for the virus after a major outbreak was identified.

60th wedding anniversary. Agnes Dey was treated by mercy crew members Joe Fallon and Grant Mortimer at her Bishopbriggs home on January 11 after she fell ill with Covid-19.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA further 1,049 cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed in Scotland as the nation's tragic death toll continues to creep grimly towards 6,000.The Scottish Government has released data this afternoon as part of its national COVID-19 daily briefing.A further 87 patients, including nine people from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board region, have died after contracting Covid which means 5,796

Prime Minister is to use the example of the army and the UK-funding for a vaccine as arguments for the strength of the United Kingdom as he launches a hard response to Nicola Sturgeon’s latest independence demands.

100-year-old woman is being removed from a care home after her family could no longer bear to see her “fade away”.Doreen Tilly’s great-granddaughter, Sonia Dixon, said she had no other option but to take her out of the facility, which has been in lockdown for 10 months.Sonia, 37, launched a furious attack on the Scottish Government’s “complete and utter failure” to end the elderly’s suffering during the Covid-19 outbreak.She told how Doreen was “full of life” when she celebrated her 100th

NHS Ayrshire and Arran hospitals has fallen for the first time in five days.But the deadly disease has claimed the lives of a further 12 people from Ayrshire, according to new Scottish Government statistics.Latest figures show 225 people are currently battling the disease in hospitals within the health board region.That's down 12 on the previous days number of 237.

The start of something new. Katie Price’s 18-year-old son, Harvey, checked out his new room at a home for full-time care on Monday, January 18.

Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.NHS Lanarkshire has now completed administering the first dose of its coronavirus vaccine to eligible care home residents.Hamilton’s Abercorn care home was the first in Scotland to have residents vaccinated in min-December with 90 year old Annie Innes being the country’s first care home resident to receive the vaccine.Since then, almost 2,990 Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.The first

Police were called to break up a protest outside a Scots home - just hours after tougher measures came in to force to stop the spread of Covid-19. Yesterday, entering businesses to purchase takeaway food and drinks was scrapped, as was non-essential click-and-collect services and drinking alcohol in public outdoors.

Perth and Kinross.

In the UK, it was God save the Queen – and the Duke of Edinburgh. Both have been given the Covid-19 vaccination, according to Buckingham Palace.

Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been given their Covid-19 jabs, Buckingham Palace have announced. The Royal couple join more than a million people across the UK to have received the vaccination so far as the country remains in coronavirus lockdown.

coronavirus-stricken care home in Fife. NHS health chiefs have now confirmed the tragic death toll at Lomond Court Care home in Glenrothes after the cluster was identified last month.

Kate Forbes, the Scottish government finance secretary, called out the Chancellor for committing no new funds to deal with the latest lockdown as the Treasury trumpeted emergency support for businesses. Sunak laid out plans for an extra £4.6 billion in business support on Tuesday including £375 million for the Scottish government to distribute.

In a series of tweets today, Ms Sturgeon said: "The rapid increase in Covid cases, driven by the new variant, is of very serious concern. The steep increases & severe NHS pressure being experienced in other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead.