Giovanni van Bronckhorst is unflustered by the prospect of losing players for the Old Firm derby.
The winter break in the Scottish Premiership was brought forward by Allan McGregor.
After crowds were capped at 500, 10 of 12 clubs voted in favor of an earlier shutdown, which will start after Sunday's games.
The Rangers' game at Aberdeen and the Celtic game have been pushed back.
"I don't see why it didn't go as planned," said McGregor.
He said that sporting integrity is one of the biggest things in Scotland. I would like to hope not.
If that is the case, sporting integrity is a huge part of Scottish football.
Scottish football has to learn to live with the virus, according to McGregor, whose side are six points clear at the top.
If there's a new variant in three months, four months, five months, which there probably will be, are we going to shut up shop again?
We take all the precautions we can. It's unfortunate that clubs have players with Covid, but it's going to happen. You need to live with that.
'No frustration' over derby absence.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst is not upset that some of his players will not be available for the rearranged Old Firm game.
The 2 February derby with Celtic is one of six matches that Joe Aribo, Leon Balogun and Calvin Bassey could miss because they are called up by Nigeria for the Africa Cup of Nations.
"Not at all," said Van Bronckhorst. It's the way football is. You want to have all your players available, but you also know that sometimes the international calendar is not synchronised with the league.
I don't like the word frustration. handling the situation as it comes is what it is.
Rangers were against bringing forward the shutdown from 4 January, but they respect the decision.
"I think we were clear as a club that we had our arguments, and that we wanted to play on for the last two games before the break," said the Dutchman.
