moment, there arejust some kind of feel for this, at the moment, there are just over 15,000 people in hospital in england, the data here are for the uk and are for slightly later in time. if we go back to september when we were still in the delta wave, the number in hospital was between 6000 and 6500, so, a very substantial increase. people are not admitted to the hospital in the nhs in winter unless they have a clear need for hospitalisation. and then to compare it to the previous waves, the wave that we had in the early part of 2020 had 18,974 people at the absolute peak, so, we are relatively close to that initial peak, the january peak last year was higher. slide, please. if we look around the country, we can see obviously quite a variety of different patterns. london has been in advance of the rest of england and indeed other
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