Scotland at beginning of a third Covid wave, country's national clinical director says
As national clinical director, Prof Leitch regularly appears alongside Ms Sturgeon at Covid briefings to help communicate public health messages.He replied: "Yes. I think we are. The question is how big that third wave is."But since then numbers have been rising, with 641 recorded on Friday - the highest daily number since 25 March.
The variant first identified in India is believed to be responsible for about half of Scotland's daily cases.He added: "The question is whether you control that to a level that doesn't cause enough severe disease to fill hospitals and enough severe disease to cause misery and death to families. "And that's the balance we are now trying to strike in the advice we are giving and the decisions the first minister and the cabinet have made today."Prof Leitch was also asked if Glasgow's role as a host city of Euro 2020 had any bearing on the decision to ease restrictions before the tournament starts on 11 June.- to attend tournament matches at Hampden in June.
He said: "Absolutely not. There is no single sector, despite what you might believe, there is no single sector that gets to control the Covid response.
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