Scotland has entered the second phase of its plan to give the population a vaccine to combat coronavirus with two new mass vaccination centres opening on Monday.
The facilities at Aberdeen’s P&J Live venue and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) will be able to inoculate an extra 27,000 people per week.
NHS staff spent last week vaccinating each other as part of their inductions at the centres.
The EICC will have capacity to vaccinate more than 21,000 people a week at 45 stations, while the Aberdeen site will start with 20 booths to accommodate around 6,000 people weekly.
Violet Adams receives her first dose from Chloe England (NHS Grampian/PA)
Scotland has entered the second phase of its plan to give the population a vaccine to combat coronavirus with two new mass vaccination centres opening on Monday.
The facilities at Aberdeen’s P&J Live venue and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) will be able to inoculate an extra 27,000 people per week.
NHS staff spent last week vaccinating each other as part of their inductions at the centres.
The EICC will have capacity to vaccinate more than 21,000 people a week at 45 stations, while the Aberdeen site will start with 20 booths to accommodate around 6,000 people weekly.
Violet Adams receives her first dose from Chloe England (NHS Grampian/PA)
Nicola Sturgeon has defended the speed of the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Scotland after the lowest recorded daily number of vaccinations were carried out.
On Sunday, just 9,628 patients received their first vaccine dose – the fewest since the Scottish Government began publishing figures on January 11 – taking the total to 575,987.
For consecutive Sundays, the number of vaccinations has fallen to below half the previous day’s figure but the First Minister said she did not know why they were “dipping a little bit on a Sunday”.
Speaking at the Scottish Government’s coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon ruled out “lagging data” and said: “It looks to me as if, for some reason, we are simply falling off a bit on a Sunday … I can’t tell you any more than that right now in terms of the explanation.