Health

INSIDE HOLYROOD: Edward Mountain says that we must safeguard pregnant women in Caithness by improving maternity services in remote and rural areas

The Highland Council is joining a pioneering national network programme aimed at tackling homelessness.

THE seven day Covid rate across Highland Council has fallen to below 100 new infections per 100,000 people, but Caithness had at least 26 fresh cases.

NHS Highland has recorded a further 46 positive tests for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

There were 25 positive tests for Covid in Thurso and the north-west of the county in the latest seven-day period recorded by Public Health Scotland.

There have been 42 additional confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours, new figures have shown.

NHS Highland is asking hospital visitors to wear fluid resistant surgical masks to help prevent the spread of Covid-19.

EIGHT Covid patients in the NHS Highland area are now in intensive care – the highest local number of the entire pandemic.

SHOCKED health workers fear lives could be at risk after ambulance bosses ordered them to take students into vehicles in Caithness and Sutherland.

SHOCKED health workers fear lives could be at risk after ambulance bosses ordered them to take students into vehicles in Caithness and Sutherland.

SHOCKED health workers fear lives could be at risk after ambulance bosses ordered them to take students into vehicles in Caithness and Sutherland.

Craig Maclean Leisure Centre, Badenoch Centre and Aviemore Community Centre will be used thanks to High Life Highland NHS Highland partnership.

Scotland's lockdown is to remain in force as Covid-19 transmission remains too high for restrictions to be relaxed, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.

There were at least 34 positive tests for Covid-19 in Caithness in the latest seven-day period recorded by Public Health Scotland.

THIRTY-three Covid patients are now being treated in NHS Highland hospitals, but only 22 new positive tests were registered in the past 24 hours.

MP Jamie Stone has welcomed news that the army has now been recruited to help establish 80 new Covid-19 vaccine centres in Scotland.

Over-70s in Caithness are being offered free transport to Covid-19 vaccine appointments if they need it.

THE seven-day Covid infection rate in the Highlands has continued its recent fall - as lockdown restrictions continue to have an impact.

TWENTY-one new positive tests for Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland health board area in the past 24 hours.

Around 400 patients were given Pfizer vaccinations at the first local clinic which was held in the games hall at Thurso High School on Saturday.