More than a thousand Covid cases in a single day were handled by Forth Valley NHS contact tracing team over the festive period as the Omicron variant took hold.
But while the Omicron variant saw case numbers soar to 16,000 a day across Scotland it did not lead to a rise in numbers in intensive care that were seen earlier in the pandemic.
And although the hospital remains busy this month – with approximately 100 covid positive in-patients – director of public health Dr Graham Foster says the peak has passed.
