Nine Covid 'hotspots' in Scotland with highest rates this week - check your area

Today’s covid news is likely to be dominated by the new 'Delta Plus' variant.

Experts and the government are keeping a close eye on a new variant that is a mutation of the Delta variant.

A third health board in Scotland has asked the Army to plug shortages as the country's NHS staffing crisis worsens.

New vaccine passport rules are coming into force in Scotland from today.

Scotland's Health Secretary has revealed there are no plans for a return to greater covid restrictions despite cases numbers remaining high.

The rollout of the covid booster vaccination programme for elderly people in care homes began at the end of last month.

Scots singer Nina Nesbitt is joining other artists including Paris Hilton, and Deadmau5, Danny Tenaglia and 3Lau to perform as an avatar in the 'metaverse'.

Scots who take statins may be less likely to die from Covid, a new study has found.

There are fears a new covid variant could be spreading across the country after people started reporting negative PCR then positive lateral flow tests.

Health officials have released the latest coronavirus data for every local authority area in Scotland.

Serious errors and delays at the hands of the Government and scientific advisers cost lives during the covid pandemic, according to a damning report from MPs.

The Scottish Government has announced that 47 countries will be removed from Scotland's red list for international travel from next week.

The £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit, which was introduced last March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was scrapped on October 6 in a move that will affect thousands of people across Scotland and nearly 5.9 million across the UK in total - some 5.2 million households.

Today's pandemic news is likely to be dominated by Scottish Labour calling on the SNP Government to take urgent action to fill staffing gaps throughout Scotland's largest hospital.

Covid ahead of the winter months. Millions of vulnerable Scots are being offered a third dose of the the vaccine - with care home residents and healthcare staff beginning to receive theirs.

Covid vaccine content from its website, it has been announced. The video hosting website says it will expand its medical misinformation policy with new guidelines on vaccines approved for use in Scotland and across the world.Videos which falsely claim that vaccines are dangerous, do not reduce transmission or contain misinformation on the substances contained in the vaccines will be removed under the new policy.

Nina Nesbitt has posted a video showing how why she often gets mistaken for American actress Miranda Cosgrove. The Summer Fling singer posted a video on TikTok of side by side pictures of herself and the iCarly actress to highlight their similarities.

covid-19. There have also been 2,556 new cases of the virus recorded in the latest 24 hour period, bringing the total number of positive cases since the pandemic started to 550,090.

Fife who has been missing for nine days. Denis Findlay, who is from the Dunfermline area, was last seen at Edinburgh Waverley train station around 5pm on Tuesday, September 14.