Nicola Sturgeon hails 'hard evidence' vaccines are reducing virus death toll
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mirror.co.ukVaccines are starting to have a positive impact on the coronavirus death toll in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said. Official figures from the National Records of Scotland offer the "first hard evidence" of the impact of the vaccination programme, the First Minister said.
Deaths in care homes, which were the early focus of the vaccination programme, have fallen by 62%, with hospital deaths down 11% and deaths at home and other non-institutional settings down 29%.
Some 323 Covid-related deaths were registered between February 8 and 14 - a decrease of 54 from the previous week. The NRS reported 9,053 deaths have been registered where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, as of Sunday.
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