care home residents.Nicola Sturgeon said a total of 113,459 people, including medics, got their first dose by January 3.The figures cover the initial Pfizer vaccine so numbers are expected to rise more quickly now a second vaccine is available.Sturgeon gave the update at the regular coronavirus briefing from Edinburgh.She said: "We are now well over half way through vaccinating care home residents with their first dose of the vaccine."That is extremely important, as you have just heard, more than a third of people who died from Covid last week died in our care homes."We very much hope that the vaccine will very soon start to significantly reduce the risk of care home residents becoming ill with the virus."Sturgeon also announced 1,100.
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