Updated: March 17, 2021, 1:17 pm
The National Records of Scotland has released the latest coronavirus death figures (Jane Barlow/PA)
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The number of coronavirus deaths fell to the lowest level since October last week, according to latest figures.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures data shows that between March 8 and 14, 104 deaths were registered that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate.
This was a decrease of 38 deaths from the previous week, and was the seventh consecutive week that the numbers have fallen.
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A single shot of the Pfizer or Oxford vaccine offers dramatic protection against hospital admission and severe disease in older people, according to a new study from Public Health England (PHE). Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the “exciting” real-world data which found either vaccine is more than 80% effective at preventing hospital admission around three to four weeks after the first dose. England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said the data offered a glimpse of how the vaccine programme “is going to hopefully take us into a very different world in the next few months”. The study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, included more than 7.5 million people aged 70 and over in England.
Britain will be a different world soon: Fewer than TEN over-80s are admitted to ICUs with Covid every day in the entire country as data shows just ONE Oxford or Pfizer jab cuts risk of falling severely ill by 80%
Fewer than 10 Covid-19 patients aged over 80 are being sent to ICU wards each day due to vaccine roll-out Matt Hancock hailed exciting data showing one shot of Oxford pr Pfizer jab protects against severe disease
Study published by PHE found the vaccine more than 80 per cent effective at preventing hospital admission
Jonathan Van-Tam also revealed jabs protected about 60 per cent from getting symptomatic Covid illness