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Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

Lauren Harries is currently in intensive care following brain surgery

Lauren Harries rushed into ICU following brain surgery

The number of Scots hospitalised with Covid-19 has decreased, latest figures have revealed.

Covid-19 hospitalisation figures decrease by 6.3%, figures show

Professor Manu Shankar-Hari is leading the research into critical care.

£7 million funding for cutting-edge 'precision medicine' research projects

Experts urged pregnant women to take up the offer of a vaccine.

Covid linked to stillbirths and ICU admissions in unvaccinated pregnant women

Staff at University Hospital Monklands attend to a Covid-positive patient on the ICU ward on February 5, 2021 in Airdrie, Scotland. TPhoto by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Covid: 80% increase in ICU admissions as 15 Omicron deaths confirmed

Boris Johnson made an urgent plea for people to come forward for their booster (Photo: Getty Images)

Boris Johnson warns 90% of people in ICU have not had Covid booster

Covid Scotland: 24 more deaths as another 2,459 new cases are reported over last 24 hours.

Here are the latest coronavirus figures in Scotland

ICU in Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Picture: Michael Gillen

Quarter of Covid patients admitted to intensive care in Scotland are under 40

Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Pandemic will have 'long-lasting impact' on intensive care staff

Nicola Sturgeon announces latest coronavirus figures at a covid briefing on Tuesday (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images).

Latest coronavirus figures in Scotland

A Covid vaccine facility sign at the Royal Highland Show ground in Edinburgh picture: PA

One new death reported as 133 test positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours

Kasey, Jack, and Thea.

Fundraising therapy bid for 'Smiling Warrior' Thea, 2, with brain damage

France has entered its third national lockdown as Covid cases surge and the number of people in ICU rises (Photo: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

France has entered third national lockdown as Covid cases surge - but has the co...

David Hay with his 'do not attempt resuscitation' (DNAR) letter which he was given while receiving hospital treatment (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

'Do Not Attempt Resuscitation' letters may seem like a threat – Helen Martin

Military personnel, who are assisting with the vaccination programme, at the Royal Highland Showground near Edinburgh picture: PA/Andrew Milligan

Coronavirus in Scotland: Latest information on Covid cases in the Lothians
A total of 107 new cases have been confirmed in the Lothians in the last 24 hours as the country records seven new deaths.

Latest information on coronavirus figures in Scotland.

Coronavirus in Scotland: Latest on Covid figures in the Lothians

Nurses at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley picture: PA/Jane Barlow

Coronavirus in Scotland: Latest information on Covid-19 in the Lothians

Nurses at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley picture: PA/Jane Barlow

Coronavirus in Scotland: 75 new cases confirmed in the Lothians

The figures are released daily.

Coronavirus in Scotland: New rise in positive tests

The Isle of Skye, a popular place for staycations when they were permitted in the summer last year picture: McKinlay Kidd/PA

Staycations could go ahead in Scotland this summer if virus 'under control'

Public information sign at the drive-through Covid-19 vaccination centre in the Queen Margaret University Campus, Musselburgh picture: PA/Jane Barlow

Latest statistics on Covid cases in Scotland released

The most commonly recorded symptom was flashbacks of the patient's time in hospital (Photo: Shutterstock)

Around a third of Covid patients thought to experience PTSD symptoms after being...

Mr Swinney said the figures met the WHO classification of being 'under control'

Coronavirus in Scotland: Drop in positivity rate 'very encouraging' as virus app...

Scotland is now seeing the effect of household mixing over the festive period in its coronavirus death figures, according to Deputy First Minister John Swinney. (Photo by Ross Parker/SNS Group via Getty Images)

Effect of Christmas mixing ‘can be seen’ in Scotland’s Covid deaths

The device is a negative pressure ventilator which works by lowering the pressure outside the body (Photo: PA)

New ventilator could allow more Covid patients to be ‘treated outside of intensi...

Lockdown flouting teens scale crane and bus surf in Edinburgh city centre

Lockdown flouting teens scale crane and bus surf in Edinburgh city centre
A group of teens who flouted lockdown rules to travel from London to Scotland visited Edinburgh to dangerously bus surf and scale a crane in the city centre despite lockdown and the sharp rise in cases which has seen NHS hospitals ICU wards reach capacity across the country.

The latest Covid-19 figures have been shared by the Scottish Government.

43 further Covid deaths and 1,316 new cases

Scenes like this could return in Scotland after Christmas

Higher uptake of Christmas relaxation likely to lead to new year lockdown

Mekala Osborne left her home 15 months ago on a trip of a lifetime, but spent a year in hospital after contracting a deadly bout of pneumonia

Mekala Osborne returns home for Christmas 15 months after leaving Wallyford for ...

(Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how many people die from flu each year

Covid-19 could lower testosterone levels and libido in men - here’s what the new...

Scott Miller, 43, was in ICU when his mother and her partner passed away.

Edinburgh man the only survivor from his household after Covid-19 hit

Stacy and Craig Brown, each with baby Blake

Mum tells of horror as newborn taken to ICU with husband barred from hospital

Scotland reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since lockdown began.

Nicola Sturgeon: No new deaths in Scotland from Covid-19 for first time since be...

Nicola Sturgeon has coped as well as could be expected during the coronavirus crisis (Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Who could do better than Nicola Sturgeon on Covid? – Helen Martin

A further 22 hospital patients who had tested positive for coronavirus have died, the latest Scottish Government figures show. (Photo by Jane Barlow-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Coronavirus in Scotland: death toll reaches 2,353

Andrew Markam delivering supplies.

Edinburgh letting agent puts cars to use delivering supplies to Covid wards

Confirmed cases of Coronavirus continue to rise in Lothian but the number of those being treated in hospital have gone down. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Coronavirus infections in Lothian continue to rise but hospital cases down

SN Louise Whitelaw (left) and DCN Hayley Simpson.

Intensive Care staff at Western General write poem for families unable to visit

Updated Lothian numbers were released today at 2pm

46 new Covid-19 cases in Edinburgh and Lothians as Scotland death toll reaches 1...

The figures were announced at 2pm.

80 new Covid-19 cases in Edinburgh and Lothians as Sturgeon says country will ta...

Neil Edwards left ICU at St Johns Hospital yesterday

Wife speaks of joy after husband taken out of two-week induced coma

Mr Mitchell left ICU yesterday evening

‘I didn’t know when, or if he was coming back’

A first look inside the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh hospital as they prepare for patients with the Covid-19 Coronavirus.

In pictures: Working in the ERI's coronavirus ICU

Karen McCabe has been reunited with her family. Credit: BBC

Edinburgh mum reunited with family after ‘remarkable’ coronavirus recovery

Medics prepare for a shift on the ICU

This is what life is like inside Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's specialist coronavi...

Karen McCabe hopes to leave hospital soon. Credit: BBC News.

Edinburgh NHS worker speaks of delight after being taken off ventilator

This is what actually happens to you in ICU - and a patient's chances of surviva...

The Scottish Government aims to quadruple its intensive care units over a matter of weeks to cope with the coronavirus outbreak, the Health Secretary said today, as she also revealed that car parking charges for NHS staff at three PFI hospitals will be scrapped for three months.

Intensive care units to quadruple and parking charges for NHS staff scrapped, ac...

Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site at Little France

More doctors, nurses and beds with all non-urgent operations postponed as NHS Lo...

Even people who are 'mildly sick' should stay at home during the coronavirus out...