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Covid in Scotland LIVE as third health board calls in Army amid staffing crisis in NHS

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A third health board in Scotland has asked the Army to plug shortages as the country's NHS staffing crisis worsens. NHS Grampian has made a formal request for military assistance as the health service faces growing pressure as a result of coronavirus and the backlog of care built up during the pandemic.

It comes just days after SNP Health Secretary Humza Yousaf confirmed NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Borders asked the Army to loan them trained medics for the ambulance service.

In the last 24-hour period in Scotland no one has died as a result of contracting the deadly disease.The latest figures for Scotland showed that 2,194 new cases had also been identified in that same time period.It means the death toll since last March – of people who first

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