with a seven—day average of 7,888 cases, as well as an increase in hospital admissions — with over 1,000 patients admitted in the last seven days. however, daily deaths still remain low, with a seven—day average of nine deaths across the uk. i've been speaking to the director of the react study, professor paul elliott. we did our survey between the 20th may and 17th ofjune, and over 100,000 people took part. what we found during that period there has been exponential growth in the virus from the quite low levels we got to in our last survey which was april—may. rapid growth with the r number above one. but in the older people,