Sturgeon urged to halt vaccine passport scheme

1. On Friday, Scotland's vaccine passport scheme is introduced, but Nicola Sturgeon tells MSPs that their will be a "grace period" of 18 days before any business faces action for non-compliance
2. The leader of the Scottish Conservative Party Douglas Ross slams what he calls a "botched" plan and urges the first minister to halt vaccine certification
3. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar expresses his lack of confidence that the scheme will work when it is implemented on 1 October
4. The delay in enforcement "is an admission that businesses are nowhere near ready and there is evidence that they [certificates] don't even work", says Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton
5. There have been more than 22,000 cases reported over the past seven days, with 2,370 confirmed on Tuesday
6. A public health expert told the BBC that Scotland is "nudging towards" herd immunity despite circulation of the virus
7. Jillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said that her overall assessment of the coronavirus situation in Scotland was "a hopeful one"

Vaccine passports delay to full implementation

BBC Scotland's Political Editor Glenn Campbell has heard there will be a grace period for nightclubs and major events in terms of the vaccine passport.

The scheme had originally been due to start on 1 October.

The vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood after the SNP and Greens voted in favour.

Some businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.

Scotland 'nudging towards' herd immunity

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Scotland is "nudging towards" herd immunity despite still having high levels of Covid-19 in the population, a public health expert has said.

Jillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, told the BBC that all groups needed to be jabbed for population-wide protection.

But she said the numbers vaccinated or already infected with the virus suggested "we are nudging towards it".

Ms Evans told the Good Morning Scotland programme that her overall assessment of the coronavirus situation in Scotland was "a hopeful one".

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