Coronavirus in Scotland: Third of population vaccinated, says Nicola Sturgeon

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed a third of Scotland’s population has received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Paramedic Andrew Parker gives the vaccine to Elizabeth and Sandy Robertson inside a holiday coach outside Culloden Medical Practice near Inverness, Scotland, on 11 February - it is being used by the Scottish Ambulance Service as a mobile coronavirus vaccination centre picture: PA/Andrew Milligan

More than 1.5 million jabs have been given – 1,515,980 – to people across the country, an increase of 27,903 on the day before.

Ms Sturgeon said: “The fact that more than one and a half million people have now received the first dose of vaccination is, I think, a really significant milestone.

“We’ve now given a first dose to almost exactly one third of the adult population and that includes virtually everyone in the top four clinical priority groups recommended by the JCVI.”

The news comes as 69 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in the last 24 hours.

To date there are currently 967 patients in hospital and 89 in intensive care.

In the last 24 hours, 31 deaths have been recorded, bringing the death toll under the Scottish Government metric to 7,084.

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