Coronavirus - Local News

THE winter flu and Covid-19 vaccination programme is under way, and NHS Highland bosses have urged people to get their jags when invited for them.

NHS Highland is urging the immunosuppressed and severely immunosuppressed to come forward for their Covid jab if they have not already done so.

NHS Highland has arranged Covid vaccination drop-in clinics in Thurso, Bettyhill, Melvich, Lybster, Golspie, Bonar Bridge and Kinlochbervie.

A Highland health chief has issued a reminder that Covid "has not gone away" even though most people are no longer testing for the virus.

NHS Highland has arranged Covid vaccination sessions this month in Lybster Community Hall, Wick Assembly Rooms and Thurso's Royal British Legion.

NHS Highland has announced details of Covid vaccination sessions taking place at the Royal British Legion club in Thurso on May 31 and June 7.

NHS Highland's director of public health is urging as many people as possible to come forward for their Covid spring booster jab when invited.

After delays due to Covid it has just been announced that upgrade work will resume at Wick's riverside car park.

From Sunday, advice will change to a "stay at home" message instead of self-isolation for people who have Covid symptoms or have tested positive.

Dr Tim Allison has paid tribute to the vaccinators and teams working behind the scenes on NHS Highland's Covid spring booster programme.

A Thurso resident in the over-75 age group was told to travel all the way to Dunoon in Argyll for a Covid spring booster appointment, it has emerged.

A Covid spring booster session for the over-75 age group taking place in Wick Assembly Rooms on Friday has been changed to a drop-in event.

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An NHS "glitch" left a Caithness couple in their eighties facing the prospect of a 150-mile round trip by bus for their Covid spring booster jab.

Struan Mackie has called for the health secretary to apologise over the "botched" Covid spring booster appointment system for the over-75 age group.

A Caithness woman has questioned why medical practice staff are having to phone patients "at the last minute" about Covid vaccine drop-in sessions.

Some elderly people in Caithness have been receiving Covid spring booster appointments for locations as far away as Inverness, it has emerged.