MANY people in Scotland are anxious to receive their Covid-19 vaccine and have lots of questions about when they will get it.

Nationally, we are vaccinating 100,000 a week and we will have the workforce and infrastructure to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.

Currently, we are on target to have the priority groups (1 and 2) vaccinated by mid-February, which includes residents and workers in care homes for older people, all over 80s, and frontline health and social care workers.

I would encourage constituents not to contact local health services to find out when they will be vaccinated. It is important to wait until your GP contacts you, rather than contacting them. Health professionals are working through their lists and if they are flooded with enquiries about vaccinations it will overwhelm their services.

Even if you are over 80 and haven’t heard anything yet, the target is to get through this age group by the beginning of February so there is still time for you to be contacted.

The best thing we can all do is read the information provided on the vaccine at NHS Inform by visiting www.nhsinform.scot/covid-19-vaccine/invitations-and-appointments/who-will-be-offered-the-coronavirus-vaccine

A new poll has shown 52 per cent of people in Scotland support Scottish independence, the 20th poll in a row to show support for independence above 50 per cent.

It is clear that Scots would like to have the right to decide on our country’s future.

The pandemic has shown us the worst of the Tory government, by imposing a devastating hard Brexit in the middle of a global pandemic, causing chaos for our fishing industry, and scrapping the Universal Credit uplift, which will plunge an estimated 200,000 children into poverty.

The only way we can prevent further Tory government chaos is through an independent Scotland.