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numbers a little bit more precisely. you re absolutely right to say that they are troubling. they are troubling because the number of infections and the infection rate just continues to increase week on week because of this coronavirus variant, the delta variant, which now accounts for 99% of all infections in the uk. just to give you a sense of how quickly that has changed, kim, i looked back at my notes. six weeks ago this is what i was writing about the uk, the situation at the time was very positive and i was writing there is a small cloud forming on the horizon. at the time there were 1,000 to 2,000 daily infections in the uk, now it s back up to 16,000 and that small cloud has grown considerably, kim. however, the reason i say we need to look at these numbers with more finesse now is that the number of infections used to be a good bellwether of how bad the covid situation was in a country, how bad or how good,

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