coronavirus vaccinations in Scotland in the coming weeks. The new health secretary said there is chance of "maximising" vaccine rollout, particularly of second doses.
He also stressed the importance of people receiving their second dose of a vaccine after a Public Health England (PHE) study found that both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs were found to be almost as effective against Covid from the Indian variant as they are against the Kent variant after the second dose.
But they were only 33% effective against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose, compared with about 50% against the Kent strain.The MSP told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: "The really important message I took from the Public Health.