Vaccine Progress Scotland15 Feb 2021 12:49
First target met, though some in first 4 cohorts will still require to be vaccinated due to missed/cancelled appointments and or people not already identified in these groups due to wrong address type scenarios.
1,255,190 vaccinated as of 8:30 this morning.
This includes c. 50%!? of 65 - 69 year olds also, so a jump start on next phase.
While this is excellent, it was also stated that due to higher uptake in first stage AND the expected drop in supplies next week/2 daily vaccination will temporarily drop.
Have had over 60,000 per day recently, expect c. 31,000/ day in coming week.
First couple questions from media have been on the differing quarantine rules between Scotland and UK government.
"Softer" approach by UK seems another error of judgement, with only certain identified countries 35!? requiring people flying in from them to hotel quarantine for 10 days.
Whereas Scotland is from ALL countries.
Pointed out UK approach leaves door open to new variants coming in at a point we are internally lowering infections.
For example someone from a "risk" country has a stop off in a not "risk" country with UK final destination means virus still potentially brought in.
Another example is many countries do not have level of genomic testing we have so a new variant in a country not on risk group could well be there and brought in undoing some of our hard work here.
Not yet confirmed school return of 22nd for some school groups.