Concern for health of Ukrainians aboard Scotland’s ‘floating refugee camps’

Campaigners alarmed by reports of scarlet fever outbreaks

The physical and mental health of Ukrainian refugees living on ships in Glasgow and Edinburgh - branded floating refugee camps" - are being put in danger, amid reports of residents being quarantined with scarlet fever.

A man told the Observer that he and his son had spent a week inside a cabin on board MS Ambition earlier this month after the young child was diagnosed with the highly contagious bacterial infection.