I’ve been desperate to get the jab

THE first doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine were administered in Scotland yesterday.

James Shaw, 82, from Dundee, was among the earliest to get the jab.

He was vaccinated at the Lochee Health and Community Care Centre in the city, alongside his wife Malita, also 82.

NHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes. Mr Shaw said: ‘ My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccina

tion. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it, so I am really pleased to be one of the first.’

The UK has secured access to 100million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Scotland will get a proportionate 8.2 per cent of the jabs.

Among the first to be vaccinated will be care home residents and their carers, people over the age of 80 and frontline health and social care workers.

The programme will then be rolled out to the rest of the population, starting with people aged 75 to 7 , followed by those aged 70-74 and those who are considered to be clinically extremely vulnerable.

More than 100,000 people in Scotland have received their first dose of a Covid-1 vaccine, including the Pfizer/BioNTech jab that was rolled out on December 8.

The Scottish Government expects that by early May everyone over 50 and those under 50 with underlying conditions will have received at least the first dose of a vaccine.

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said: ‘When it is your turn to be vaccinated you will be contacted by your local health board and I urge you to please take up the offer.’