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Although official events to celebrate New Year were cancelled in Edinburgh, crowds gathered at the location to welcome in 2022. [1] Scotland's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith is knighted in the 2022 New Year Honours. [2] A COVID-19 testing centre is deliberately set on fire in Dumbarton. [3]
Scotland's National Clinical Director, Professor Jason Leitch, suggests that door-to-door carol singing should "probably not" take place over Christmas. [314] First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces that every NHS and social care worker in Scotland will receive a £500 "thank you" payment for the role they played in the COVID-19 pandemic. [315]
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom in 2024. There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a government Web site updated daily during the pandemic. [1]
Senior doctors have said that 1,000 extra acute treatment beds are needed in Scotland's NHS to help relieve the "unrelenting pressure" facing emergency departments. [357] 21 September – First Minister Nicola Sturgeon outlines details of when and where vaccine passports should be used, and urges venues to use "common sense" when checking them ...
NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and Public Health Scotland .
The COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland is part of the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Scotland on 1 March 2020. [1] Community transmission was first reported on 11 March 2020, and the first confirmed death was on 13 March 2020.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms that vaccine passports will be required for people who wish to enter nightclubs and attend large events in Scotland. [258] The practicality of the plans are questioned by the Scottish Professional Football League , which says they could have unintended consequences.
History of NHS Scotland; History of NHS Wales; History of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland; Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Trafford General Hospital then known as Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester. The NHS was one of the first universal health care systems ...