Mass vaccination centres to open at Glasgow's Hampden Park and Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Nicola Sturgeon confirms
Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross has been asking for mass vaccination centres to reopen for a number of weeks.
At the earlier Covid-19 recovery committee, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said that on Tuesday 77,000 vaccinations were carried out - 18,000 of which were flu vaccinations. Derek Grieves, head of the Scottish government's operational vaccines division, told the committee there would be an extra 100 military personnel deployed to help with vaccinations.
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