scotland, and the figure for today, as you can see there, just over 10,500. the first minister, nicola sturgeon, saying that these figures show the expected steep increase in cases because of the omicron variant. also, there is a longer turnaround time for test results at the moment, because of all the public holidays, christmas and so on, so the first minister was making the point that the actual number may in fact be much higher, but there will be considerable time lags and confusion with all these figures in the next day or two, these figures in the next day ortwo, because these figures in the next day or two, because everything is different with public holidays, isn t it? so there are going to be some difficulties with the latest figures. there havejust come through from scotland in the last hour, and we are expecting those from england at some point, perhaps in the next hour as well. so we are very much keeping an eye on all of that, and we will try to put