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Welcome to your coronavirus update from The Scotsman. Before we begin, please consider taking out a digital subscription with us from just £3 a month for unlimited access to all our stories. Or you can now give the gift of a digital subscription to a loved one here. Readers of this newsletter can get a 20% discount on gift subscriptions with the promo code SCOTGIFT20. Health secretary confirms date for roll out of AstraZeneca The vaccination of Scots from Covid-19 is due to ramp up early in the new year, as Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman confirms the planned date for the AstraZeneca vaccine roll out. She also confirmed she expects the country to receive a further 172,575 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of the week. When can we expect the roll-out of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine? Scotland is facing return to March-style lockdown, MSPs told The country could be set to return to the lockdown measures imposed back in March if cases continue to rise, MSPs have been told. Any toughening of restrictions would also see an extended period of remote learning from universities and school, warned Professor Jason Leitch. Most of mainland Scotland is already set to go into level four restrictions for three weeks from Boxing Day. Read the full story here. More headlines from today This is how the Covid-19 virus mutated and how it takes to spread New chief executive of NHS Scotland announced Labour peers claim Scottish cross-border unlawful mostly false >> For the latest breaking coronavirus news as it happens, keep up to date with our live blog. Thank you for reading and stay safe, Graham - Graham.Falk@jpimedia.co.uk | 