virus. that obviously is a few days ago now, so it will be even more than that figure. she pointed out that the number of people in hospital has almost doubled. it has gone from 679 to 1223 in the past week. that is an increase of 80%. what was also i think significant about what nicola sturgeon was saying was that she was saying there is going to be a new strategy, which will be developed over the next few weeks, and that will be more in terms of trying to avoid restrictions and lock downs of the kind that we have seen for the last two years, a sort of acknowledgement that coronavirus has to be lived with, as she put it at one point, you cannot carry on living with these kinds of restrictions forever. you have to find some means to return to some form of normality. and so, it is interesting that even though we are in this situation