most acute cases, they will be dealt with in hospital but as a sort of stepped out provision, people coming to the end of hospital admission with covid that could be moved into one of these overflow centres as they are getting better and before being released into the community. we are six or seven weeks into omicron and assessing the impact of it. what are the latest indications when you look at the statistics? the bi caveat when you look at the statistics? the big caveat is when you look at the statistics? tue: big caveat is over when you look at the statistics? tte: big caveat is over christmas, when you look at the statistics? tt2 big caveat is over christmas, it s difficult to read too much into some of these statistics because things like the death statistics for example, tent to get, death registrations do not happen in a regular way so you may say today a sudden increase in the number of people registered as passing away. that s really the backlog from the last couple of days
will see some people, particularly the elderly, dying within 28 days of a case of covid. we look very carefully at the 0ns data, released weekly, in the last two weeks it has always liked because the death registrations need to come through. it has always lagged. we need to monitor the number of deaths we rc and andy 0ns are monitoring that are on the death certificate, related to the death in some way. if those diverged we will discuss it further and highlight the reasons. 0n the components of face coverings aren t working from home, case numbers have declined, it is behaviour that will make the difference over the next four weeks face coverings and working from home. clearly when you are working from home you have less social contact but we are already seeing some people going back to the