delay some of the less urgent plant care and at the same time, we know that staff are absolutely, as i have just said, absolutely exhausted so there will by definition be an impact on getting through the care backlogs because what we were hoping to be able to do was run full pelt right the way through december and january and february, getting as many of those cases done as possible but we simply have not been able to do that as a result of the arrival of omicron. so it will have an impact and we will need to work out what that impact is but there will be an impact. what that impact is but there will be an impact-— what that impact is but there will be an impact. chris hobson, thank ou, and be an impact. chris hobson, thank you, and absolutely _ be an impact. chris hobson, thank you, and absolutely right - be an impact. chris hobson, thank you, and absolutely right to - you, and absolutely right to acknowledge the amazing work that the people in our medical services are doing through what is clearly a very difficult period.— are doing through what is clearly a very difficult period. joanna, thank ou. india has recorded its sharpest ever weekly rise in the number of coronavirus cases. infections tripled over the last week — driven by the omicron variant. the government is extending