Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon capped crowds for out of doors public activities at 500 from December 26th for up to a few weeks.
The new rules brought about Scottish Premiership golf equipment bringing forward their winter ruin through every week following Sunday's video games.
Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou will be relieved to now have three weeks off to build up the strength in his squad.
The Hoops had to field their 0.33-preference goalkeeper Vasilis Barkas with Joe Hart and Scott Bain plus captain Callum McGregor and complete-backs Anthony Ralston and Greg Taylor lacking due to suspected wonderful instances for Covid-19.
Celtic already had a lengthy damage listing and misplaced pinnacle scorer Kyogo Furuhashi to the recurrence of a hamstring hassle early on.
However, the visitors already led at McDiarmid Park through then as Liel Abada compelled the ball domestic from close range after Elliot Parish stored his preliminary effort.
Abada doubled Celtic's lead with his 10th goal of the season from Tom Rogic's fine via ball.
St Johnstone loved their greatest ever season in 2020/21 by winning both home cup competitions.
But they're finishing the 12 months on a low as an eighth consecutive defeat left them nonetheless rooted to the foot of the table.
