One health board said a fifth of its nursing staff were off work as a result of the virus.
How is the new wave of infections affecting hospitals?
Despite that, NHS Lothian said it was experiencing serious capacity issues as a result of the prevalence of the virus in the community. One major problem is the high number of patients who are medically fit to leave hospital but who cannot be discharged as they have no care in place to support them at home.
"We've all got out of the way of doing that in recent weeks, it's perhaps sensible in the next few weeks to get back into the way of doing that."She said it was also important that people were up to date with their Covid vaccinations.
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