Professor Jason Leitch has predicted fans 'of some description' could be back inside Premiership stadiums by September.
Scotland's national clinical director was probed by Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack on what he feels could be a realistic timeline for some supporters to return to matches.
While he stopped short of giving any definitive confirmation, Leitch did suggest that the Covid-19 vaccine is expected to be distributed by that stage and that a travel ban might also help.
Speaking on Off the Ball, Leitch said: "I think it's credible that the game will return at each of its levels. Crowds is Dave's actual question.Crowds is much less predictable. I would hope by September the whole country will be vaccinated. So nine million doses of vaccine - that's huge remember.
"That's a massive logistical excercise. Hundreds and thousands of people working on that even today and up and till then.
"Then we will have to see what the virus does. We will have to see if we have managed to not import the virus again with travel restrictions. So people are going to have to pay some cost to get more freedom. That's why there is crowds at the Australian tennis this week because they have paid a price of international travel to get domestic freedom.
"If we get all of that right as a nation, that's not just the government, it's also all the people, then yes, I think there could be crowds of some description in September."
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