The Crown Office is investigating 474 care homes in Scotland over Covid deaths.
The BBC reports the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service's dedicated Covid-19 Death Investigation Team (CDIT) is probing the circumstances of coronavirus-related deaths in care homes across the country.
The CDIT was set up in May after Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC said all confirmed or suspected coronavirus deaths in care homes should be reported to the Crown Office, as well as deaths of people who may have contracted the virus at work.
The team had reportedly received 2,242 death reports as of Thursday, with a majority of those believed to be linked to people who lived in care homes.
Scottish Care chief executive Donald Macaskill told the BBC broadcaster the investigations the figures caused "dismay and disappointment."
He said: "Frontline staff and managers are spending huge amounts of time providing data and information for these investigations.
"This would be challenging at the best of times but in the middle of a pandemic and with dozens of care homes fighting active outbreaks this has added to a real sense of exhaustion, dismay and disappointment.
"We believe these investigations are wholly disproportionate and are causing irreparable damage to the professional integrity of nurses and carers who are exhausted beyond measure in fighting the virus."
A Crown Office spokesman told the BBC: "CDIT receives and deals with those reports and will work with the relevant agencies to ensure that all necessary and appropriate investigations are undertaken and that each investigation progresses as expediently as it can."
