Military personnel are supporting public services across the UK to assist with the response to COVID-19. This page has the latest information on the MOD’s activities.
Saturday February 13, 2021, 9:18 AM
A member of the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland Balaclava Company working at the mobile coronavirus testing unit run by the army in Moffat, Scottish Borders. Credit: PA
Army staff will be deployed to aid the vaccination rollout in Dumfries & Galloway, the Defence Secretary has said.
An additional 33 defence medical staff, from across all three services, will join their 57 colleagues already working as part of the Vaccine Quick Reaction Force at centres in Dumfries and Galloway and Fife.
Across Scotland a further 353 armed forces personnel will deploy on the front line of the Covid-19 vaccination and testing effort in Scotland.
Army will be on ‘front line’ of vaccination effort – Wallace
Soldiers have been helping out since the start of the pandemic (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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A further 353 armed forces personnel will deploy on the “front line” of the Covid-19 vaccination and testing effort in Scotland, the Defence Secretary has said.
Ben Wallace visited a vaccination centre at Forth Valley College in Stirling on Friday, where he met soldiers administering injections to the public alongside NHS staff.