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Update on the First Minister's statement advising against non-essential travel to very high or high alert areas under England’s new three-tier system

This year the vaccine is being offered to more people than ever to address the additional risk posed by COVID-19.

The Challenge Poverty Week campaign led by The Poverty Alliance, is an opportunity for all of us to reinforce our contributions to reducing poverty and to help address a key driver of inequalities in Scotland.

Our daily COVID-19 dashboard now has several additional features which allow data to be presented in a more accessible and meaningful way.

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on life in Scotland and understanding how many people have had the virus, particularly those working in an education setting doing a variety of roles, and how this changes over time will inform the measures taken to limit risk and strengthen the ongoing pandemic response. The COVID-19 Antibody Survey in education Staff (CASS), launching today, will help identify the proportion of people working in an education setting in Scotland who have had coronavirus by testing for antibodies in their blood.

Public Health Scotland has launched its first strategic plan.

Experts from Public Health Scotland will today join a virtual roundtable on problem drug use.

A new Public Health Scotland publication suggests that people who were advised to shield have mostly followed this advice – but the shielding experience has been difficult, in particular for socio-economically vulnerable groups.

An analysis of responses to relevant questions in the 2013, 2015 and 2019 Scottish Social Attitude Surveys (SSAS), which asked a representative sample of the Scottish adult population about their attitudes to Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP).

Public Health Scotland has published a report on taking a human rights approach to the recovery from COVID-19