Question reference: S5W-34255
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 December 2020
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Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 23 February 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish its plan to vaccinate people (a) overall and (b) in high-risk groups against COVID-19 in the NHS Grampian region, and what the timescale will be.
Answer
The Scottish Government has published its Deployment Plan which sets out how we will work as fast as supplies allow to vaccinate everyone over the age of 18 and those aged 16 and 17 who are frontline health and social care workers, young carers or have underlying health conditions.
As of 14 February, 122,856 individuals had received their first vaccination in the Grampian area which is 25.33% of the population.
Weekly updates are published by Public Health Scotland providing more detailed breakdowns by groups vaccinated and geography: https://publichealthscotland.scot/our-areas-of-work/covid-19/covid-19-data-andintelligence/covid-19-weekly-report-for-scotland/
The Scottish Government now publishes daily updates of the cumulative number of people receiving their vaccination:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronaviruscovid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/.