on the 21st ofjune. so let's begin... covid infection surge. borisjohnson has been saying he can't see anything in the data to derail that june the 21st date but actually cases are going up quite seriously. they are. the times is reporting that surged by 76% in that week which is faster than any time since september. i guess the slight nuance in that which is probably what the government are clinging to is that the number of very seriously ill and intensive care in elderly patients have gone down, which is a testament to the vaccination programme and it is younger people were less sick or being admitted to hospital. nonetheless, the numbers are rising and there's a lot of concern about potential new variants, the indian