Covid-19 jab now given to more than half of Moray's adults
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MORE than half of Moray's adult population has now received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
A first jab has been given to 51.2 per cent of the area's adults (40,756 people), with 7.1 per cent (5666 people) now fully vaccinated.
In the last week, 5020 first dose jabs have been administered in Moray, an increase on the 4181 given the week prior, while 2483 second dose jabs were given, up on the 940 last week.
Moray's figures are ahead of the Scottish average, with 49.5 per cent of adults (2,250,000 people) across the country having received their first jab and 5.5 per cent (249,252 people) having received both.
NHS Grampian, which encompasses Moray, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City, is slightly behind the national average on first doses administered, with 45.8 per cent of the adult population (222,357 people) having been given a first jab.
However, six per cent of the health board's adult population (29,340 people) are fully vaccinated.
% of adult population given first jab by local authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar - 72.2
Orkney - 70
Shetland - 64.3
Dumfries and Galloway - 62.6
Argyll and Bute - 60.5
Clackmannanshire - 57.6
South Ayrshire - 57
Angus - 56
South Lanarkshire - 55.6
Stirling - 55.2
Scottish Borders - 54.2
Fife - 54.1
East Ayrshire - 54.1
North Ayrshire - 54
Falkirk - 53.9
Inverclyde - 52.7
Perth and Kinross - 52.7
East Dunbartonshire - 52.5
North Lanarkshire - 52
Highland - 51.4
MORAY - 51.2
East Lothian - 50.8
Midlothian - 50.6
West Dunbartonshire - 49.5
Dundee City - 49.4
Aberdeenshire - 49.1
East Renfrewshire - 47.3
West Lothian - 47.1
Renfrewshire - 45.6
Aberdeen City - 40.1
Glasgow City - 38.8
Edinburgh City - 38.5
% of adult population given first jab by health board
Western Isles - 72.2
Orkney - 70
Shetland - 64.3
Dumfries and Galloway - 62.6
Ayrshire and Arran - 54.9
Borders - 54.2
Fife - 54.1
Highland - 53.9
Lanarkshire - 53.7
Forth Valley - 54.9
Tayside - 52.4
Grampian - 45.8
Greater Glasgow and Clyde - 43.5
Lothian - 42.8
% of Scotland vaccinated by age and gender
