âGetting the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccination has lifted a weight off of my shouldersâ By Neil MacPhail Published: 17:30, 07 February 2021
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A man receiving a vaccination for Covid-19. Picture: Becky Saunderson.
NHS Highland is making progress with its vaccination programme but what is it like to get the jab? Our first reporter to get a shot in the arm was Neil MacPhail. Here are his thoughts.
ON the morning of Burns Day, the BBC was excitedly telling the nation that Scotlandâs over-70s citizens were to receive âblue envelopeâ letters inviting them to have anti-Covid injections, and only the other day the radio declared that the 70-79 age group jags were starting.
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Before and after: Neil, left, sporting his luscious long locks and, right, after getting the chop.
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Neil MacPhail will say a fond farewell to his flowing locks this weekend.
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At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall.
However,
To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic.