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Millions to miss out on Covid booster as NHS slashes eligibility

A new variant of Covid named Eris has emerged as figures show a spike in hospital admissions this summer

New Covid variant found in UK

The latest Covid figures in Scotland on Tuesday, January 18 (Photo: John Devlin).

31 deaths and 7,752 Covid cases reported in latest figures

A medical worker prepares a BioNtech-Pfizer Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a colisium in Makati City, suburban Manila on November 29, 2021, as the Southeast Asian nation launched a three-day vaccination drive targeting nine million people as young as 12 in an effort to accelerate the roll-out of jabs, amidst the threat of heavily mutated coronavirus variant Omicron. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) (Photo by TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid Scotland - your views online

Miles Briggs quoted the mother of a childhood friend who died a drug-related death

Drug-related hospital admissions soar in Lothian

Scotland has been locked down for over a month - so is it working? (Getty Images)

Is lockdown in Scotland working?

Boris Johnson made what looked like an open-ended commitment to maintain furlough payments in Scotland for however long a full lockdown here lasts, says John McLellan (Picture: Handout/PRU/AFP via Getty Images)

How Johnson may just have given a blank cheque to Sturgeon – John McLellan

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Nicola Sturgeon to announce further dates for lockdown easing

Dreadnought responds to announcement that pubs can reopen in England

Edinburgh pub has hilarious response to pubs reopening in England

Nicola Sturgeon will give more details about easing of lockdown on Wednesday.

Nicola Sturgeon to give more details about easing of lockdown on Wednesday