updating our appearance on the latest figures we had today, 42,730 cases, 223 deaths. i wonder if you put that into a little bit of context for us and what you make of where we are on this journey as far as infections are concerned. i where we are on this journey as far as infections are concerned.- as infections are concerned. i think we all do need as infections are concerned. i think we all do need to as infections are concerned. i think we all do need to be as infections are concerned. i think we all do need to be concerned i as infections are concerned. i think| we all do need to be concerned that the figures are slowly but surely going up, they are not going up in the kind of rapid rise way that we saw last year, but they are never the less steadily creeping up. and although the vaccine programme will do much to reduce the extent to which those cases are translated into hospitalisations and deaths, because the vaccines are very good at preventing that, never the less, we do