Almost 55,000 booster jabs were administered on Tuesday in the effort to tackle the Omicron variant.
A record number of booster jabs were given in Scotland on Tuesday, according to Public Health Scotland figures.However, the figure is still short of the 70,000 boosters a day target set by Health Secretary Humza Yousaf.
A request for military personnel to help Scotland's vaccination programme has now been approved, the Scottish government has confirmed.An additional 100 military vaccinators will join 100 existing staff and begin delivering vaccinations from next week. "The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is adding to the winter pressures usually faced by the NHS," he said.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told BBC Scotland the Scottish government needed to do "everything necessary" to accelerate the booster programme.
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