earlier this evening. the chief medical officer for england, professor chris whitty, had a stark warning about the prevelance of the virus. data from the office for national statistics, which is the official data which is done as a survey across the country, shows that the prevalence of this disease has been going up extremely rapidly over the last few weeks, having been very flat due to the work of everybody in the country over spring and summer. and we now have around 50,000 new cases a day and that is rising. that was professor chris whitty speaking. the government chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, said the next six weeks currently look grim, with hospital daily admissions expected to surpass the peak reached in the first wave. inevitably, hospitalisations lead unfortunately to deaths in some people.