More than 500 people who have tested positive for the virus are in hospital in Scotland.
Under Scotland's Covid-19 rules, she is able to exit quarantine as she had her second dose of vaccine more than two weeks ago.
"But it is in our hands. There are things we can do about that - vaccination, testing and following the rules, the three things everybody now knows so well." NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Glasgow top a list of the worst-hit regions in Europe, according to World Health Organization figures with 853 and 748.5 cases per 100,000 respectively.
Prof Leitch said the increase in Covid cases was partly caused by the Delta variant being more transmissible, schools opening and more people meeting and gathering after lockdown restrictions were removed."When you add a new infectious disease on top of what we already manage, diabetes, and strokes and heart attacks and everything else that comes through our community and hospital system, of course it is stretched.
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