Scotland recorded its highest daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in the last 24-hour period.
15.12.2021 - 21:20 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scottish Government request for extra military support to help combat Omicron has been approved.
An additional 100 military vaccinators are joining the existing 100 staff who are working to help with the roll-out.
Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: “We are so grateful to everyone who has been involved in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Scotland, including the military, which has ensured more than 10.5 million doses - first, second, third and boosters - have already been delivered.
“We are now in
Scotland recorded its highest daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in the last 24-hour period.
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Military personnel are being drafted in to help Scottish health boards treat Omicron patients.
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Nicola Sturgeon has expressed her disappointed that neither the Prime Minister nor the Chancellor was on a call to devolved nations about the state of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK.
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The latest data on the Omicron Covid variant has been published by the Scottish Government.
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Scotland became the first nation in the United Kingdom to give a booster coronavirus vaccine to more than half of all adults.
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