Coronavirus - Local News

Revitalised town and city centres can help the Highlands tackle the challenges of Covid-19 recovery, the climate emergency and cost of living crisis.

THE winter flu and Covid-19 vaccination programme is under way, and NHS Highland bosses have urged people to get their jags when invited for them.

The Age Scotland boss says the plan makes sense and should help people get access to medical care that some have lacked for a long time.

NHS Highland is encouraging the immunosuppressed and the severely immunosuppressed to come forward for their Covid-19 vaccination.

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Patients living in the Alness area are being given the option to have their Spring Booster administered at clinics being run by Alness Pharmacy.

Dingwall is setting the scene for a street party that will mark a milestone moment in history – and celebrate the community's remarkable resilience.

Optimism over booming visitor numbers in Ross-shire is being sharply undercut by staff shortages, soaring prices and the legacy of Brexit and Covid.

THE Spring Booster campaign is continuing across NHS Highland with more clinics added for May.

Patients living in the Kyle area are being given the option to have their spring booster administered more locally at clinics at the local pharmacy.

A Vietnamese barista now living on the Black Isle is to stage his first art exhibition after teaching himself oil painting during lockdown.

The spring booster campaign is continuing across the NHS Highland area with more clinics added for the month of May.

A 63-year-old long Covid sufferer from Northern Ireland has successfully completed the 2022 Etape Loch Ness with the help of oxygen cylinders.

An acclaimed Black Isle cheese shop will be closed for 10 days as staff self-isolate as a precaution.

A Black Isle nursing home has been hit by a “significant” wave of Covid-related staff absences in the last fortnight.

Cases of coronavirus and norovirus have resulted in two wards at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness being closed to new admissions.

Highland MSP Emma Roddick was speaking after they were fined for attending lockdown parties

Unsolicited text message from ‘TestNTrace’ advises recipient they have been a close contact of someone with Omicron

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