Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that Scotland will have half a million fewer vaccine doses than expected over the next month.
The First Minister says this is unlikely to affect the JCVI priority groups scheduled to get the jag by the middle of April.
It could however have an impact on the next phase of the vaccination programme, where under 50s receive the vaccine.
Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday afternoon that there may be times in April when second doses have to be prioritised due to the shortage.
She said: "At present we expect that over the next month we will have approximately 500,000 fewer doses than we had previously anticipated.
"For that reason there may be periods in April where we need to prioritise second doses.
"However, I want to be clear today that we do still expect to offer a first dose of the vaccine to the remaining JCVI priority groups by the middle of next month as planned... we also still expect to have offered a first dose to all adults in the population by the end of July."
The shortfall is in part due to a delay in the delivery of five million Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines to the UK from India.
Sturgeon confirmed on Thursday that there had been seven deaths from coronavirus and 624 positive tests in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.
The test positivity rate is 2.7 per cent, down from 3 per cent on the previous day.
There are 405 people in hospital with the virus, down 17 in 24 hours, and 38 patients are in intensive care.
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