Question reference: S5W-34056
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 15 December 2020
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Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 10 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many COVID-19 vaccine doses it estimates will be available by the end of each of the next five months.
Answer
This information is outlined in the published 'COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan 2021’: Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccine deployment plan 2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
We are working to get vaccines to everyone as quickly as we can, and hope to have vaccinated all those on the JCVI prioritisation list by the end of spring 2021, but these assumptions on delivery are predicated on available supply. Should the pace of vaccine approvals increase, or the volume of vaccine being delivered increase, we will move swiftly and flexibly to deploy them.
Overall a total of 1,759,750 people have received the first dose of the COVID vaccination and 115,930 have received their second dose, as of 7 March 2021.