However, a widening gender gap is particularly evident in recent days among people aged between 20 and 24. In the latest figures, males made up more than three quarters of people testing positive in that age group.
He told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “A few weeks ago it was about 50:50, men and women got infected at the same rate. Yesterday the data showed that young men – men under 45 – were about three times more likely to get infected.