flattening in the parts of the country like london where it took off a while ago and it is now starting to flatten out. when you miss that altogether you get an overall picture that staff absences are probably up. that is reflecting one area where it is 0%. in a moment we are going to be speaking to dr claire steves, scientist on the zoe covid study app, which helps gather research on the spread of the virus as well as its symptoms, but first let s take a quick look at the latest data from zoe. the zoe covid data team estimated there are currently over 208 thousand new symptomatic cases of covid in the uk. meanwhile in the official government data, a further 179,756 new cases were confirmed in the latest data. zoe also suggest that an average of1 in 25 people in the uk currently have symptomatic covid.