Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
26 Nov 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Covid-19 Vaccination Programme
Health and Social Care
Eligibility for the Covid-19 vaccine is based on the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and is identical across the four United Kingdom nations this winter. JCVI advice is based on its standard cost-effectiveness analysis, which shows that the oldest in the population and individuals who are immunosuppressed are at the highest risk of serious Covid-19-related disease, hospitalisation and death.
The recent Public Health Scotland “Viral Respiratory Diseases in Scotland Surveillance Report”, covering the period from 10 November to 16 November, shows that
“COVID-19 activity decreased or remained stable overall”,
with 73 hospital admissions that week—a decrease from 81 in the previous week.
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