Professor James Chalmers said the NHS is already under massive pressure.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme, Prof Chalmers said: “At the moment through December we have seen very high case numbers, as we did last year, and we only started to see that feed through in Scotland to very high numbers in hospital in the later part of December and the early part of January.
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