to discuss all things covid, tim spector joining us now from kings college, london.thank you for joining us to help with the numbers that are coming out if we can start out with the uk. i'll read out a couple of stats with the virus story daily cases up to 15,000 as of yesterday versus 5,590 in the week before. in hospital, 1,500 versus 187, the week before. that is out of the data from yesterday. how concerned should we be about the virus situation here in the uk >> i have been tracking the virus with the covid app for the last 18 months now we are getting data from 1 million people which is ahead of the government figures we have been seen the rises earlier than anyone else we're seeing about 21,000 cases every day. what we have been seeing is these are starting to tail off the increases that we saw rapidly in the last two weeks slowed down in the last few days the worst of the areas of the country, scotland and the northwest of the country, have peaked and flattened we hope in a few days, it will peak and start to go down. the other thing is to realize that althou