dr muhammad munir is lecturer in molecular virology at lancaster university.on bbc news. first, this obviously not coming as quite a surprise butjust break down what we are seeing. coming as quite a surprise butjust break down what we are seeinglj think this number that we have seen is to some extent surprising because we have been seeing an increase in the number of cases for the last two 01’ the number of cases for the last two or three days, but compared to what has been happening in the rest of europe, it was expected because what we have seen in the rest of the european countries is a 700 to 900 cases for the last two weeks, and today in france it has been 7000 cases. so it is pretty remarkable andi cases. so it is pretty remarkable and i think it is worrisome for many aspects, first because the disease is part of the same trend as in the rest of europe with the younger population but it is able to move into older people in the coming days. is this what we have been talking about, the build—up to the second wave? that is true. if we look into the definiti