BREAKING: Health secretary sets date for AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out in Scotland

A Royal Mail office in Glasgow has been hit by a major Covid-19 outbreak after dozens of employees tested positive. [View email online]( [Subscribe]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [The Scotsman] Dec 23, 2020 Good afternoon, Welcome to your coronavirus update from [The Scotsman.]( Before we begin, please consider taking out a [digital subscription]( with us from just £3 a month for unlimited access to all our stories. Or you can now give the gift of a digital subscription to a loved one [here](. Readers of this newsletter can get a 20% discount on[gift subscriptions]( with the promo code SCOTGIFT20. Health secretary confirms date for roll out of AstraZeneca The vaccination of Scots from Covid-19 is due to ramp up early in the new year, as Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman confirms the planned date for the AstraZeneca vaccine roll out. She also confirmed she expects the country to receive a further 172,575 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of the week. [When can we expect the roll-out of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine?]( Scotland is facing return to March-style lockdown, MSPs told The country could be set to return to the lockdown measures imposed back in March if cases continue to rise, MSPs have been told. Any toughening of restrictions would also see an extended period of remote learning from universities and school, warned Professor Jason Leitch. Most of mainland Scotland is already set to go into level four restrictions for three weeks from Boxing Day. [Read the full story here.]( More headlines from today - [This is how the Covid-19 virus mutated and how it takes to spread]( - [New chief executive of NHS Scotland announced]( - [Labour peers claim Scottish cross-border unlawful mostly false]( [>> For the latest breaking coronavirus news as it happens, keep up to date with our live blog](. Thank you for reading and stay safe, Graham - Graham.Falk@jpimedia.co.uk [Glasgow Royal Mail office hit by coronavirus outbreak as 38 employees test positive]( A Royal Mail office in Glasgow has been hit by a major Covid-19 outbreak after dozens of employees tested positive. [{$escapedtitle}]( [Subscribe to The Scotsman today!]( [Article Image]( [Coronavirus: EU calls for member states to ‘discourage’ travel from UK over mutant Covid strain fears]( Brussels has said travel from the UK to the European Union should be “discouraged” due to fears about the mutant variant of coronavirus – but bans on movement should be lifted. [Article Image]( [Christmas Gift Guide 2020: great ideas to delight people of all ages, for all budgets]( We’ve rounded up presents to please everybody, be it a secret Santa gift or a luxury present to spoil your beloved. Here are all of our Christmas gift guides for 2020 in one place. Promoted by The Scotsman [Article Image]( ['Typical. Do as I say, not as I do' - readers react after Nicola Sturgeon apologises for funeral covid mask breach]( Hundreds of Scotsman readers expressed a mixture of anger and sympathy after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was photographed without a mask inside a bar during a funeral. [Article Image]( [Nicola Sturgeon analysis: He who has never forgotten their mask in Tesco may cast the first stone]( The First Minister’s error of not having her mask on in a pub while at a funeral for a Scottish Government colleague will hurt public health more than her. [View more news]( Please note Due to the unprecedented nature of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic we have launched this new daily newsletter to keep you up to date with the latest official information and advice. How to opt out of these emails We are sending these daily Coronavirus email bulletins in addition to our daily newsletter emails. If you would like to opt out of only these additional Public Interest emails, and continue to receive your regular daily newsletters, please [click here](. You have received this email as you have an account on The Scotsman, published by JPIMedia Publishing Ltd. To manage your individual newsletter preferences with us, please [click here]( and log in to your account. Alternatively you can [update]( your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive from JPIMedia Publishing Ltd, or [unsubscribe]( from all future emails. JPIMedia Publishing Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with registered number 11499982, having its registered address at 1, King Street, London, England, EC2V 8AU, United Kingdom. We will process your personal data in accordance with our [privacy policy](.