NHS chief: 'It's clear that some people with Covid-19 were among the pub crowds'

The deputy director of public health at NHS Grampian says people with coronavirus would have been among crowds pictured outside Aberdeen bars at the weekend.

In an interview with Original 106, Chris Littlejohn says concern began to grow that Covid-19 was being easily spread among people in the city, when the images emerged on social media.

At least 54 cases have been linked to almost 30 venues in the Aberdeen area.

Mr Littlejohn says he hopes new lockdown measures in the city will now result in "fairly quick" evidence of the numbers coming back down.

He also addressed concerns from several venues that they had not been informed about customers contracting coronavirus - despite being named on the list yesterday.

You can hear a full question and answer session on the situation in Aberdeen, with our reporter Fraser Nicoll, in our video above.