NHS Lanarkshire has issued a plea for those high risk people to get vaccinated this autumn.
A senior respiratory clinician is reminding Lanarkshire residents that getting their winter vaccinations will not only offer protection but help reduce the risk of severe illness from flu and COVID this winter.
Professor Andrew Smith, consultant in respiratory medicine at WishawGeneral said: “While the number of COVID cases has dropped significantly, and people have slowly got back to some sort of normality, the reality is that COVID has not gone away and is still a very serious infection.
