Covid in Scotland: Government aim to vaccinate all adults 'in summer'
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Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman has said her ambition is to have every adult vaccinated for Covid "in the summer".
The Scottish government had set a September target to vaccinate all over-18s.
Ms Freeman told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show that it was "not sensible" to give specific dates as it depends on supplies remaining unhindered.
On Sunday a further seven deaths were recorded as well as 584 new cases.
Official figures, external also showed 839,266 people had received the first dose of the Covid vaccination - a record increase of 52,839 on Saturday.
In total, 94% of over-80s have now had a jab. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that Scotland was "on track to hit all targets" after a record day of vaccinations.
Once all the priority groups outlined by Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have been completed, Scotland's vaccine deployment plan moves on to the rest of the population.
Ms Freeman said: "Our ambition is to get through all those 4.5m adults, 18 and over, in the summer.
The health secretary appeared on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show
"At this point it is not very sensible to give specific dates because there are a number of unknowns, partly what the JCVI tell us and partly about supplies.
"But what is the case, is that our infrastructure to do that is there, and we have the vaccinators, we have the support staff, we have the local and the regional centres able to do it.
"As fast as we get supplies we will be vaccinating."
Ms Freeman warned that Scotland must remain "cautious" about the new Covid variants but stressed that the current vaccines are "very effective".
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The latest Scottish government data showed 108 people were in intensive care with recently confirmed Covid, nine less than Saturday.
Hospital numbers were also down by 19, to 1,710. But the test positivity rate had increased from 5.9% to 6.9% since Saturday.
The health secretary also told the programme that discussions are still ongoing on how hotel quarantine for people arriving in Scotland from abroad will work.
She would not comment on whether hotel rooms have been booked for the new "managed quarantine" policy - due to come into force on 15 February.
While the UK government will only require those arriving from "red list" countries to quarantine in a hotel, Scotland will require all international travellers to do so, regardless of where they have come from.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace: Covid will be an "ongoing challenge" to the world
Meanwhile, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said the UK must remain alert for new strains of Covid.
His comments come after early trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab suggested it gives limited protection against mild disease caused by the South Africa variant.
AstraZeneca also said it had not yet determined whether the vaccine protects against severe disease caused by this variant.
Mr Wallace told The Sunday Show: "We have to be aware that the lessons we have learned from the past year are not something to be put on a shelf and forgotten.
"This will be an ongoing challenge to the world, how we deal with Covid.
"There is no such thing as a magic wand, this is about managing outbreaks, managing infections and making sure that we constantly develop our vaccines."
