carried out by the armed forces. UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed the deployment of 98 soldiers over the next 28 days to identify and prepare suitable locations for NHS Scotland to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.
Soldiers will organise vaccine delivery to the sites, prepare storage for medicines and equipment, how to register and record patients as well as sorting car parking and traffic flow around the sites.
It comes after it was revealed the NHS will start a 24-hour coronavirus vaccine trial over the next 10 days Health bosses have confirmed hospitals will push vaccines out around the clock to stop the spread of Covid-19.