Chief Medical Officer, Catherine Calderwood, has confirmed that Scotland is looking for suitable locations to build huge makeshift field hospitals to deal with a predicted influx of severe cases of COVID-19 in Scotland.
It comes after a disturbing video emerged of a London worker showing the inside of a huge super hospital being set up in London, which includes hundreds of beds and "a morgue."
In the chilling video, the worker pleads with people to "take this seriously" and today Scotland confirmed that it will also be creating huge makeshift hospitals.
Scotland's Chief Medical Officer, appeared on BBC Radio Scotland, confirming that Scotland would be looking at creating venues similar in scale to the one in London's ExCel Centre.
She told the radio station: "We have had quite detailed discussions very recently and I know that there are sites being considered in Scotland this week."
While London seem to be way ahead of Scotland in terms of cases, Dr Calderwood warned that the virus just hasn't hit us properly yet.
She told the BBC radio station: I'm worried that these low deaths are actually just because we haven't had the virus in Scotland for as long as as they've had it in England."
"There hasn't been enough time for people to get more unwell and hospitalised and then onto that stage where they are needing intensive care. This is probably just a time issue, rather than it being a lower death rate per se."
There is currently 9,529 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the UK, with 717 cases of these coming from Scotland.
