Covid in Scotland: Oxford vaccination rollout begins

People in Scotland are receiving doses of the second Covid vaccine to be approved in the UK.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

James Shaw, 82, from Dundee, was among the first to get the jab.

He was vaccinated at the Lochee Health and Community Care Centre in the city alongside his wife Malita, also 82.

The new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.

People in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.