Prof Leitch said there was a UK-wide effort going on to secure more ventilators. He said some of these would be coming to Scotland.

He said Scotland had enough ventilators "on the ground" at present for the "doubling" of capacity he referred to earlier in the interview.

"Right now, only half of intensive care is full - there are empty intensive care beds just now, ventilated, staffed," he said.

Prof Leitch added: "We have orders in for the ventilators we would need for that quadrupling.

"And we are as confident as we can be as the world seeks those ventilators that we will get them."

Prof Leitch said that "the most important thing we're doing" to the health service in Scotland is redesigning existing infrastructure.

"We are of course thinking in our reasonable worst-case scenario if the curve really came to accelerate really fast what would we do if we ran out of space in that existing infrastructure.

"We're still planning with all our hearts and minds to bring that curve down so the existing infrastructure copes."

Options for field hospitals were being considered - "the SEC is one of those possibilities", Prof Leitch said.

Asked about whether work should start on building a field hospital in Scotland as it has in London, Prof Leitch said: "We have some advantages because we are a little bit behind London.

"We are getting that information [about what NHS Nightingale in London is planning] so we can learn in time if we require it.

"We have started in the sense that we have started to think about what it would look like, where you could do it. We have talked to our armed forces colleagues because they're very good at that fast engineering."

But, he said "this would have to be an NHS facility", adding that it would be a "complex arrangement" supported by the armed forces.

Prof Leitch added that "there are conversations ongoing... to think about what that would look like and when, and if, we would need it."

Prof Leitch says Scotland has "astonishingly" redesigned its health service in two weeks.

"I cannot tell you how difficult it is to double our intensive care capacity in two weeks," he adds.

"And now we're asking our health boards to quadruple intensive care capacity in another two weeks - if you'd told me that a month ago I honestly would have thought you were crazy."

Prof Leitch says it's important to remember that the vast majority of people will only experience mild symptoms.

He continues: "But hope is not going to fix this.

"That's why the interventions are so stringent."

The basic rule for everybody is just stay at home, he adds.

Scotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has told the BBC's Politics Scotland programme that there was "finite capacity" for testing, and Scotland could carry out about 800 tests a day at the moment.

He said as testing capacity increased, the "first priority" would be healthcare workers and other key workers to get them back to work.

Prof Leitch added: "We test the people who need it".

That includes those with respiratory symptoms who ended up in hospital, particularly those in intensive care.

He said this would be used to divide hospitals where possible into Covid-19 patients and non-Covid-19 patients.a

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Here's a little more from the UK's Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who says it's "vitally important" that for weeks ahead people follow social distancing guidelines.

Asked how long the UK's lockdown will last, he says: "I can't make an accurate prediction, but everyone does have to prepare for an extended period."

He says the UK's peak is “not a fixed point” in the calendar and timing depends how closely people follow the rules.

After Boris Johnson and a number of other MPs tested positive for the virus, Mr Gove insisted the government had been doing everything to observe the social distancing advice.

"We've been doing everything we can to observe the advice. Within the House of Commons we've been trying to observe that advice."

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The chief medical officer for Scotland has warned that the restrictions on people's movements, to try to combat the spread of the coronavirus, could last for 13 weeks.

Catherine Calderwood said anything shorter risked the virus coming back.

She said the experience of other countries showed that strict measures were needed.

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The UK government's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth says Labour is calling for the government to be "crystal clear" over which firms and are considered essential and should remain open during the lockdown.

He said: "I'm asking the government to provide absolute clarity about what sorts of work are essential, and which are not."

Mr Ashworth says many non-essential workers are being “forced” to go into work where they are unable to observe social distancing advice, adding that many workplaces are not observing the 2m rule.

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The UK needs to prepare to be under strict measures for a "significant period", Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says.

A letter from the prime minister is being sent to every UK household -- warning that the coronavirus crisis "will get worse before it gets better".

In the note, Boris Johnson urges everyone to follow the current social distancing rules - saying the closer they are adhered to, the sooner life can return to normal.

But he stresses that the UK government will not hesitate to bring in tougher measures, if necessary.

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The fall-out from the trial of former first minister Alex Salmond features on several of the front pages.

The nine women who accused Mr Salmond of sex offences say they have been left "devastated" after he was acquitted of all charges.

Elsewhere, the latest updates on the coronavirus crisis make for harrowing reading.

The death toll in Scotland has now reached 40, with 1,000 people having died across the UK.

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Welcome to our live page. We'll be bringing you all the latest developments on how coronavirus is affecting Scotland.

Here is a recap of some of the developments on Saturday

• Another seven people in Scotland with coronavirus were confirmed to have died, taking the total to 40
• The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Scotland now stands at 1,245, up 186 on Friday
• Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said he was showing coronavirus symptoms and was self-isolating at home in Dumfries and Galloway
• Police are hunting a teenager who coughed on a health worker heading home after work in Aberdeenshire
• The Scottish government said dogs from self-isolating households should be kept on a lead in public places
• Scotland's clinical director said the NHS 24 service was under pressure - and urged people only to use the 111 line if their symptoms get worse