last week saw the highest levels of coronavirus infections ever reported across uk — according to the office for national statistics. the infection survey found that nearly 1.3 million people in the uk — around one in 55 people — would have tested positive for coronavirus in the week to last friday. but the survey does not cover the week that's just ending, where the daily number of infections has appeared to be beginning to fall. and today the government has urged secondary school pupils in england to get themselves tested before retruning to school after half term to try and avoid further disruption. 0ur head of statistics robert cuffe has been explaining. we are back up, the number of people infected, that we last hit in january, but the number of people in hospital is only a quarter of that. this chart that we are showing now shows the trends we have seen over recent times. we saw case numbers rise as society opened up into the middle of summer, and in—betweenjuly and october they bobbled around a lot, they are up and down, peaks and troughs all following closely.