next question from ben kentish at lbc.ures this morning because two months or so ago at the start of lockdown the government predicted a death toll between 7000 and 20,000 to. the onus the total excess mortality since the end of march is three times that -- the ons. it is around 62,000. i wondered if you have a sense of why you thought that was and therefore what lessons we could learn about that for the future. and one for professor newton, a testing capacity has increased significantly but still about a third each day is going unused. i wondered how you planned to use that spare capacity and whether it could be used for people who have been told to isolate by the track and trace, test and trace system without symptoms to decide whether or not they do indeed have the virus. thank you. 0n the first question, i will take that and ask professor newton to answer the second. 0n the first question, we did not make a prediction of the impact of this disease other than right at the start when there were scientific predictions mad

next question from ben kentish at lbc.nt predicted a death toll between 7000 and 20,000 to. the onus the total excess mortality since the end of march is three times that —— the ons. it is around 62,000. i wondered if you have a sense of why you thought that was and therefore what lessons we could learn about that for the future. and one for professor newton, a testing capacity has increased significantly but still about a third each day is going unused. i wondered how you planned to use that spare capacity and whether it could be used for people who have been told to isolate by the track and trace, test and trace system without symptoms to decide whether or not they do indeed have the virus. thank you. on the first question, i will take that and ask professor newton to answer the second. on the first question, we did not make a prediction of the impact of this disease other than right at the start when there were scientific predictions made which have been published showing that unmitigated, with no measures, the death to