Vaccine rollout to be scaled back in Scotland due to dip in supply

The Scottish Health Secretary has said the country will have to ‘scale back’ the vaccine rollout due to a dip in supply UK-wide over the next two weeks. Photo: PA

Scotland will have to scale back its coronavirus vaccination programme over the next two weeks as supplies into the UK dip, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said.

She said Scotland should hit its target of vaccinating 400,000 adults a week ahead of schedule this week, but the programme will then “need to scale back a bit”.