data on omicron and these are data people have probably seen versions of in media in the last few days but i think the need flashing out a bit. these are the number of people testing positive for covid 19 in south africa. at this point in time, the big increase in covid in south africa is almost all the omicron variant and this has now spread all around south africa and you can see it is an incredibly steep increase in rates and we are now seeing this translating into increasing hospitalisations. i was talking to some of my colleagues from there this afternoon and they were saying that informal data, still to be added to, there was around about a 300% increase on hospitalisations over the last week. some of those will have come in with omicron and some as a result omicron but the