that's why they're saying it's important to be cautious, because this is really early data, they do think it has a substantial growth advantage. it spreads more quickly. this is still early days and things may change as they learn more about it. the encouraging thing is the vaccines are still working, so after two or three go it says, it's still providing protection against symptomatic disease for both variants. clearly, much more research is needed, but they say that the uk is in quite good position because of the amount of genome sequencing carried out here and they can react and respond quite quickly. they say across the board infections are at a high rate and people should still be cautious as restrictions are eased, consider still wearing masks to get your vaccinations and to carry on testing regularly. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather. here is thomas.