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22 March – The Scottish Government confirms that secondary school pupils will continue to be required to wear face coverings in communal areas of school after the Easter holiday. [ 75 ] 23 March – NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde , Scotland's biggest health board, warns it is facing COVID pressures that are "as serious as it gets".
COVID-19 policies in Scotland began to diverge with those elsewhere in the UK as the first lockdown was lifted starting in April 2020. The Scottish government pursued a zero-COVID strategy aiming to eliminate the virus entirely in 2020, lifted lockdown rules more gradually than the rest of the country, and expanded testing capacity.
The First Minister made the announcement at Holyrood on Tuesday as part of the latest review of the route map out of lockdown.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Group, tells the COVID-19 Inquiry that senior members of the Scottish Government "froze" at the beginning of the pandemic, ignoring the advice of experts, and also claims hundreds of people may have died after being told not to "bother" the NHS. [17]
Following revelations about the deleting of WhatsApp messages by the Scottish Government, First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford (who does not use the app himself), tells the Senedd he cannot guarantee that messages sent by ministers and officials within the Welsh Government, and sought by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, were not deleted.
The statement said that everyone five and up is eligible for a single dose; however, they need to schedule an appointment for the vaccine that is at least two months after their last Covid-19 vaccine.
NHS Louisa Jordan hosted COVID-19 vaccine clinics from 8 December 2020. [6] The hospital's last day of operation was 31 March 2021 and its mass vaccination clinic relocated to the OVO Hydro. [7] The last day of the vaccination clinic was 18 July 2021. [8]
The Scottish Government confirms that people travelling overseas will be able to access a vaccine certificate, either online or by request through the post. [ 191 ] National Records of Scotland confirms that three deaths in Scotland have been linked to "extremely rare" reactions to the COVID vaccine.