have the number of nhs staff in northern hospitals who are now absent because they have covid or a contact habit and they are isolating. that number has risen steeply in the last couple of weeks. we are going to see a patient numbers. those numbers will continue to go up at the same time the number of people available to care for them well perhaps come down slightly. fin well perhaps come down slightly. on a more positive note and taking what you said earlier, having to look at the centre regional science, the figures for london in the 0ns survey today, when in 20 people on december the 19th having at the 19th having at and presumably for days on, and it's even worse than that at the moment. does that mean that actually there will be a peak in london before the rest of the country and that will come reasonably quickly? i willjust say one thing, that figure of one and 20 was actually an average for that whole become if you look at the most recent data for the 19th itself it was one and ten, so omicron really has been incredibly widespread in london. you are right, what we have seen both in the uk