dame anne johnson — from university college london and a member of the government's scientific advisory particularly concerned by a rise in infection rates among young people. in leeds, people have been urged to socialise "sensibly and responsibly" this weekend, after the city was added to a government watchlist of areas with high rates of infection. our health correspondent richard galpin reports. it is amongst young people now that there is mounting concern about coronavirus infections. although the virus has less impact on that young they can spread it to other people. soon thousands of students will be travelling to start winter term at university. they will be travelling toa university. they will be travelling to a part of the country that may not necessarily be seeing outbreaks and they might be carrying infection with them and may potentially infect elderly relatives who may also be at risk. now councils regarded as hotspots are ramping up preparations to get young people to take risks more seriously. more young people tested positive and they are spread around the city. it is no

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speaking earlier, dame anne johnson from university college london said it wasn't surprising that wemong young people in the uk. this is indeed a critical moment and what is happening in leeds if you look at the data across the country from phe we are seeing the highest number of infections, or at least detected infections in younger people aged 28—29 and also going up to a5. 0n the one hand the good news is we are not at the moment seeing the uptick in cases in but that reflects where the transmission is going on. it is young people who are probably all pleased to come out of lockdown and see friends and family more, probably they have availed themselves more of those things rather more than the older people it is not surprising this is where we're seeing an upturn. the government is urging civil servants in england to return to work in the office. in a letter seen by the bbc, it wants 80% of civil servants to be at their workplace at least once a week by the end of the month. but unions have described the government's attitude as outdated. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley h

back alex is in conversation with professor human dougherty chair of intensive care unit at university college london and dr chris smith for all the just i'd cambridge university. but it will have a lot of questions about immunity and scott want to know how many people don't have a complete immunity to disease so they can pretty soon as he don't know we don't know what community the community does exist and the state does exist i'm quite certain that this where how complete it is how long it lasted i don't know we do know that the current a virus does mount a significant to the response your body does defend itself and it does that in a couple of ways it makes these chemicals called antibodies which are proteins that jumps to the vowels and help your body attack that cell so if you want my guess my guess is that you do get some degree of affected immunity but quite at what level of antibodies you need and how long you see last i don't know the christmas j.t. us just the direct question that has been alluded to after contracting covered 19 are we have mutant of the seas lots of people want to go that'

we can speak now to deenan pillay, professor of virology at university college london. forjoining us. to what extent do you share the view of the professor that we are on the edge of losing control of covid—19? i agree with him. we are on the knife edge and it is in our hands how we get out of this. it is essential that we continue with the basic principles of the pandemic control, and that is making sure that everyone who has symptoms can be tested, can be quickly tested, but equally important is that there are but equally important is that there a re co nta cts but equally important is that there a re contacts a re but equally important is that there are contacts are supported in isolating themselves. there is no point in widespread testing or aiming fora total point in widespread testing or aiming for a total number of tests without the contacts of those cases of covid—19 themselves isolating themselves and stopping prevention. in fact, over the last few weeks, we have had data which suggests that less tha n have had data which suggests that less than 50%, in fact ma

dame anne johnson — from university college london — said data showed the highest number of detected younger people. the government's scientific advisory body, sage, says outbreaks linked to universities are "highly likely". more areas of england — including leeds and middlesbrough — have been added to the government's watchlist of places with high rates of coronavirus, as andy moore now reports. leeds is the latest city to become an area of concern for public health england. there will be an increased monitoring of cases and potentially more restrictions further down the line if the rate of infection does not fall. the local council says that there is a growing number of cases in young people aged 18 to sa. other places are in a similar position. we are in a situation where we are being watched quite closely by public health england and the department of health and offered additional help and support if we need it, but at this point in time, we are yet to see the rates translating into additional hospital admissions or situations in care homes. the places added to england's public he

michie is professor of health psychology and director of the centre for behaviour change at university college londoner of the government's independent advisory group, sage, and the alternative expert group, independent sage. shejoins me now. quite a mouthful and a lot of hats you have to wear but if you were in a room with boris johnson this weekend what would be your key message to him as he tries to make this decision? the key message would be the world health organization's key message and what has worked for other countries which is you need to act quickly in fast andi is you need to act quickly in fast and i think we need to think about a stitch in time right now. i would suggest a few things, all coming together in terms of clear comprehensive strategy, limiting contact with between households, going back to only go into workplace, travelling to workplaces if you have to, closing down indoors bars and restaurants. we know outdoors! safer than outdoors. bars and restaurants. we know outdoors! saferthan outdoors. in universities where we have up to i million people coming from all over the world

well, i'm joined by dr gavin morgan, a psychologist at university college london.p advising the government on how people will behave during the pandemic. doctor morgan, we heard they are from alice that there is goodwill and people are abiding by the rules. in your understanding, do you think the rules are clear enough for them to abide by? i think your previous guest made some very interesting points that i'd like to build on in relation to why people do or do not conform to rules and expectations. and as psychologists, we know the value of what we call co—construction, which essentially means working for people, with children, with groups of people to design their own config dutch future and take control of their future. it is very difficult for governments to do that. governments don't do it. instead, what governments do is impose change on people. and i think people who follow rules and regulation, if they are credible and meaningful desk people will follow rules. but generally people don't like being told what to do. but if instructions are credible and releva

comes following a similar warning at the weekend from dame anne johnson, epidemiologist at university college londonuidelines. young people are not remembering to do some of the basics that we all need to do to prevent the transmission of infection. wearing masks, washing your hands, keeping your distance. and that is really important to be reinforced as we see this increasing cases occur. —— increase in cases. one of london's largest historical cemeteries is to reopen to the public from today. willesden jewish cemetery was closed to everyone during the pandemic, opening only for funerals but from today, people can once again visit gravesides and also learn about london'sjewish heritage. a woman from south london has launched a children's magazine for boys to tackle the under—representation of black children in the media. serlina boyd launched cocoa boy to celebrate black culture, having began another magazine, cocoa girl, earlier this year. ms boyd says she wants to provide "an opportunity for other children to see that they can achieve, what they want to achieve". it has been really exciting launc

dame anne johnson — from university college london — said data showed the highest number of detectedunger people. more areas of england — including leeds and middlesbrough — have been added to the government's watchlist of places with high rates of coronavirus. earlier, the elected mayor of middlesbrough, andy preston gave me his reaction. i was expecting it, you know, i've been banging on about it for days and weeks locally, so it wasn't a surprise. we've been taking really strong action. in fact, we've been out with the fire brigade this week visiting venues, warning them. we are seeing a lot of dangerous behaviour and a number of infections coming from pubs and restaurants. in fact, tonight, we're out with the police and we're going to be visiting venues and where we see bad practice, if we think the public‘s health is in danger, we may well close those venues down. so you're prepared to close them on the spot? yeah, if we see sufficiently bad practice, if the public‘s health is in gnificant danger, we will take everything we legally can to stay out of lockdown. if we go into some

joining us will be cell biologist at university college london — jennifer rohn and university of cambridgeisis‘ in nursing. the public accounts committee says nhs england is short of 40,000 nurses and more than a third of the existing workforce is considering leaving soon. ministers say they are on track to hire 50 thousand more nurses by 2025. the headlines on bbc news. the government defends the new coronavirus restrictions but there are warnings of tougher measures to come if people don't stick to the rules. the damaging effect on pubs and restaurants, forced to change the way they serve and closing at 10pm from tomorrow. plans to bring back spectators at live sporting events next month are also put on hold. three days of tributes have begun in the united states for supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg. the women's rights champion was carried up the steps to the supreme court, just a half an hour ago. members of the public will get the chance to pay their respects on friday, ginsburg will become the first woman to lie in state in the us capitol when her casket is placed in national

according to researchers at university college london a survey found the majority of those questioned metropolitan police says we will see more officers enforcing covid19 regulations we will see more officers enforcing covid—19 regulations across london. the focus will be on public spaces, where lots of people are most likely to come into contact with each other. it's been really different. from how it was a year ago before all of this, we were busy, but now having to add all of this on top of the crime that we have in the background is quite a lot, and ourselves, you know, khaving to get used to everything as well, it is tough. a ferry across the thames at hammersmith bridge could be in place by the end of next month. the local council has told bbc london that it's optimistic about the temporary solution which would connect barnes and hammersmith. the bridge has been completely closed since last month and shut to vehicles for over a year due to major structural problems. elephant & castle shopping centre will close from midnight tonight. opened in 1965, it'll be demolished as part of

. >>> for more on the showdown, let's bring in julie norman, a lecturer in politics at university college london, professor. thank you for coming on. >> good morning. >> well, i guess i should say it may not be a showdown so much since we know that the republicans have a majority for this process. but what did you think of the nomination of amy coney barrett, her opening remarks, and president trump's move to fill this seat so quickly? >> yeah, well, natalie, i don't think that amy coney barrett's nomination was a surprise. she's been a long time favorite of trump, and really for conservatives more broadly. she's a member of the federalist society, she was a clerk for scalia, so she really was a pretty solid pick and will appeal to a lot of trump's voters. and trump trying to move this through fast, we heard the senate trying to move it through quickly, and, again, this is what we expected as well. and as we heard, there is not going to be much that the democrats can do to stop that. so, we expect this nomination to be moving forward quickly and to be hearing a lot more from amy coney barrett in

joining me now is dr dimitrios tsivrikos, consumer psychologist at university college, london. all governments are doing their best, the level of clarity was not there and the amount of information that perhaps one was receiving was way too much to make a rational decision. also though, everyone has a different sense of risk and the kind of risks they are willing to ta ke kind of risks they are willing to take and that makes a big difference doesn't it in how we behave? absolutely. we tend to believe thing that we all make decisions on the same way but we don't. we have to nominate key clusters that we have to connect with people, do we see covid—19 as a health threat, a financial threat, or is something that would change our lives in a different way. from a communication perspective, if we have people perceive a threat, we were not connected ina threat, we were not connected in a meaningful way. what extent is culture playing a pa rt extent is culture playing a part in this? i was talking to my colleague in beijing and how china has managed to keep the second wave of infection

doctor adam rutherford, geneticist, science writer and broadcaster who study genetics at university college london. he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of childhood virus. he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the bbc including inside science, the cell, playing god for the leading science series, author of the book of humans and a brief history of everyone who ever lived. once again, how to argue with a racist, here it is, a fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience, it smashes race myth that plague society. if you would like to purchase the book, check out the link in the chat room. please join me in welcoming to the screen doctor adam rutherford. >> am i live? thank you. very generous introduction. presenting the book of humans, showing me around the basement, was absolutely amazing. i will be back as soon as i can. i am a geneticist, exactly right. that means ideal in evolution and dna, my work in the last few years, i will share my screen with you has been slight technical issue here, it is not sharing my screen. cold on jus

in belarus may have an impact or bend the will is a lecturer in russian politics at the university college london he says opposition leader alexina volley supporters have organized tactical voting to challenge kremlin backed candidates. well what they're trying to do is to chip away at the kremlin's image of invincibility that the kremlin completely controls elections if through smart voting the vani and his team can demonstrate that there is scope for competition that there is scope for opposition success then that might lead to a snowball effect and that's something that the kremlin is incredibly worried about this is a real a dress rehearsal for next year is elections for the state duma those absolutely crucial and we have to bat one thing in mind united russia which is the party supported by the kremlin at the beginning of 2018 has an approval rating above 50 percent now that approval rating is just about 30 and that's really worrying for the crime then because they really want to receive a constitutional or some type of majority in the federal parliament because without that we might see a v

let's talk to professor christina pagel from university college london — an expert in operational issues member of the alternative sage group of scientists scrutinising the government's handling of covid — and tina reynolds — a childminder and carer. she's been trying to get a test for her 15—year—old son since monday. she looks after seven children during the day — all of whose parents are key workers — all of whom are now having to self—isolate. because of your 15—year—old son, is that right? absolutely, yeah. echoing what is happening all over the uk at the moment. we are desperate to get test so they can go back to school and i can get back to work. at the weekend i am a carer for a very understanding car company that we are alljust for a very understanding car company that we are all just trying for a very understanding car company that we are alljust trying to get tests so we can go back to normality. you have been trying online. yes, he started developing a cough monday morning. i closed down childminding and started self isolating. straightaway we went on to the website, tried to

damme and dame annejohnson is a professor of infectious disease pidemiology at university college london government ambitions for mass testing are? clearly it's very important as we move forward, we develop new technologies and we use them appropriately. but i think it's important to say from the papers that i've seen that we don't really get have the new rapid tests properly developed and evaluated in ways that could be rolled out in large numbers. any big programme like this is an interesting idea, we need to think about how it works, but as we have seen with all the testing programmes, logistics are critical. even if you have the right technology that technology needs to be shown to work properly and be accurate, so we don't want a lot of false positives or negatives from the testing, and then also we need to make sure that you've got some sufficient capacity, either of the tests themselves or the laboratories to test them depending on the system. in most of all you've got to supply them to people, and people have got to want to comply. so just as with the current programmes of essent

for weeks now, london's university college hospital has hardly seen any coronavirus patients across itsa difference from when we filmed here at the peak. then, the intensive care unit had to double in size to cope with the influx. now, it's empty of covid patients. but confirmed cases of covid infection have risen four—fold since mid july. as this graph for england shows clearly, it's mostly people in their 20s and 30s who are testing positive. those figures showing who is getting coronavirus help explain why this and other intensive care units are not filling up with covid patients. the young are generally at low risk from the virus. but there's concern that if it spreads further in the community, things could change here in the coming months. we are always used to any way having more people come to hospital with respiratory virus infections in the winter. the worry is that the sort of people who get infected are the sort of people we saw previously, the older population, the people with other risk factors for doing badly and ending up in hospital. shielding of those with health vulner

for weeks now, london's university college hospital has hardly seen any coronavirus patients across itswhen we filmed here at the peak. then, the intensive care unit had to double in size to cope with the influx. now, it's empty of covid patients. but confirmed cases of covid infection have risen four—fold since mid july. as this graph for england shows clearly, it's mostly people in their 20s and 30s who are testing positive. those figures showing who is getting coronavirus help explain why this and other intensive care units are not filling up with covid patients. the young are generally at low risk from the virus. but there's concern that if it spreads further in the community, things could change here in the coming months. we are always used to any way having more people come to hospital with respiratory virus infections in the winter. the worry is that the sort of people who get infected are the sort of people we saw previously, the older population, the people with other risk factors for doing badly and ending up in hospital. shielding of those with health vulnerabilities may need

scientists at bristol university and imperial college london hope the studies will help schools understandion editor bra nwen jeffreys. this is the only testing done so far in schools, swab samples taken in the summer term. the level of coronavirus cases was low then. now, all pupils are back in school in england, cases are rising in the wider community but still, little is known about children, so, in bristol, researchers will use saliva tests. 4,000 pupils, 1,000 staff, once a month for six months. i think the main thrust of the study is really to understand the rates of infections, and to be able tojump on them very quickly, so we're giving the head teachers tools to be able to spot infection early and to keep their schools open and permit the continuity of education that is so important to them. catching cases early could mean fewer pupils isolating. another study in london would investigate more, following up on confirmed cases in pupils, looking in detail at youth and how they pass it on. branwen jeffries, bbc news. schools in england reopened last week. let's find out how they've be

for weeks now london's university college hospital has hardly seen any coronavirus patients, across itsfrom when we filmed here at the peak. then, the intensive care unit had to double in size, to cope with the influx. now, it is empty of covid patients. but confirmed cases of covid infection have risen four fold since mid july. as this graph shows, it is mostly people in their 20s and 30s who are testing positive. those figures showing who is getting coronavirus help explain why this and other intensive care units are not filling up intensive care units are not filling up with covid patients, the young are generally at low risk from the virus. but there is concern if it spreads further in the community, things could change here, in the coming months. we are used to any way having more people come to hospital with respiratory virus infections in the winter, the worry is the sort of people who get infected are the sort of people we saw previously, the older population, the people with other risk factors for doing baldly and ending up in hospital. france has seen an even bigger spike in c

michie is a professor of health psychology and director of centre for behaviour change at university college londonng expectations, that probably won't be fulfilled, we had expectations raised by a world—class beating up many months ago, millions of pounds are spent on it, and that's got nowhere. and the other problem is how it's being solved is the numbers that are going to be done and the numbers aren't the issue. the issue, as ever with testing, is who is being tested, where are they being tested, and also how do you interpret the results? these test results are going to have what's called false positives and negatives, people who think they are not infectious but actually are, and also those who aren't infectious to think they are, and then have to isolate. we need much more information. these technologies have not been developed yet. they haven't been evaluated in the way vaccines and medication has, and we can't have a situation where we have these incredibly extravagant promises and an abstract way, to make people feel better, and distract from the total failure of the current test, trace an

let's speak now to professor susan michie, a behavioural psychologist at university college london.k into work places, encouraging people to help out, and the colder weather, the autumn coming, then we would see a second wave, but we did say it was avoidable if the government took up the measures but we are where we are now. but the government has taken measures in the form of local lockdowns. one in five people in england is living under those restrictions at the moment. how much of this is down to individual compliance? we heard on the one extreme in bolton somebody coming back from holiday, going in a pub crawl, not self—isolating and that was responsible for a huge spike. we also hear that four in five people are not fully self—isolating if they are not fully self—isolating if they are displaying symptoms. yes, if you look at the evidence the overwhelming majority of people, actually in all age groups, still are motivated to follow the rules. so the question is, to what extent is this to do with people being not motivated to follow the rules, or is it that they have become confu

isobel braithwaite, from university college london, has been studying the technology and says the challengeue to their phone's software being out—dated. isobeljoins me now. and singapore was the first government to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in march. we can also speak to professor greg tucker—kellogg, from the university of singapore. welcome to you as well. thank you for your time. let's get straight to the query that lots of people have been asking us about, and that is, if they have software that is older than the 13.5 version, they are unable to download the app. will there be something that will allow them to do that? not to my knowledge. i think this is potentially an issue that is not within the uk's developers control, because i believe germany had similar issues with apple, with the iphone, so unfortunately not. i had a quick look at some of the statistics earlier because i saw the department of health were saying that for the majority of phone users it won't be an issue and it looks as though roughly 70% of iphone users have a sufficiently updated operating system

experts at university college london have said the uptake of such an app would need to be between 56ot as addicted to their phones as a first minister and i. are not as addicted to their phones as a first ministerand i. can i are not as addicted to their phones as a first minister and i. can i ask what has been done to ensure everybody including the hardest to reach, having helped in adopting this new technology? can i thank ruth davidson for a question. can i also thank you for personally downloading the app and for taking the opportunity today to encourage others to do so. i would appeal to members across the chamber to follow that example. this is not political in any way. all of us have a duty to ask fellow citizens to do the right thing. uptake of course it is important, which is why it is so vital we do encourage people to download it. there are other views about whether you need to reach a specific percentage. i take the view the higher the better, but the more people that sign up the better. everybody that signs up is making out on contribution. when i left my office to come

joining us will be cell biologist at university college london — jennifer rohn and university of cambridge. the 44—year—old became ill on a russian domestic flight last month and airlifted to germany ina coma. we spoke to our berlin correspondent, jenny hill, who gave us the latest. the hospital have told us he is expected to make a full recovery. he‘s been here for a month. the doctors say he no longer needs inpatient acute which is why they are discharging him today. they are making this statement with the full agreement with him and his wife. as you‘ve mentioned, they are hesitant to say what long—term effects the poisoning might have because it‘s too early to gauge those but mainly, they expect for recovery to be possible. it‘s been a difficult road to recovery. we know this from some of the social media posts from him and members of his team over the last few days. it‘s only been a fortnight since he came out of in an induced coma and he‘s posted about the difficulty pouring himself a glass of water or climbing the stairs because of difficulty controlling his legs and hands. he‘s talk

there is good data on this, we have the covid social study done at universal college london and theyapping fines on people, which is part of the approach, explain why and keep explaining and bring the people with you because if you don't do that there is real problems. the prime minister talking about potentially six months of restrictions, do you think that is wise, to be talking about such a long period of time? maybe that will bring a kind of fatigue to people and maybe even disappointment and despair?m fatigue to people and maybe even disappointment and despair? it might do, and the data on depression and anxiety are moving in the wrong direction. they improved when we came out of lockdown and they are going in the wrong direction again now. to say six months in that blanket way is not helpful, you need to commit to reviews and recognise that if the data says things are improving, and! that if the data says things are improving, and i hope this will slow the cases down, then you need to provide people with a clear route map of what are the steps and when we will review and what m

as a scholar of cultural studies at the university in berlin and king's college in london she looks at the ways in which we are can make history more vivid we ask how effective technologies like virtual reality truly are in bringing history back to life i think these formats work really well and considering how they are becoming more common for personal use it makes sense to use them for educational purposes but it's important to have people there for support and supervision. that's the disadvantage is that virtual reality is designed to completely envelop and recreate an intensely emotional situation. this can quickly taking on a position that can be quite problematic especially in historical. is a very emotional experience perhaps it's too emotional of an experience to be used to teach history objectively luckily there's another way to time travel games in the adventure game the berlin wall players have flee the g.d.r. the developers of the game hope that it can help educate young people about what life was like in the to tell a tarion state now when exactly was this wall that's prob

for weeks now, london's university college hospital has hardly seen any coronavirus patients across itsnts. but confirmed cases of covid infection have risen four—fold since four—fold since mid—july. as this graph shows, it is mostly people in their 20s and 30s who are testing positive. those figures showing who is getting coronavirus help explain why this and other intensive care units are not filling up with covid patients. the young are generally at low risk from the virus. but there's concern that if it spreads further in the community, things could change here in the coming months. we're always used to any way having more people come to hospital with respiratory virus infections in the winter. the worry is that the sort of people who would get infected are the sort of people who we saw previously, the older population, the people with co—morbidities, the people with other risk factors for doing badly and ending up in hospital. the nhs is open for business, but uch says many patients are still too scared to come to hospital because they fear catching coronavirus. if that's what's ha

steven wermiel, american university washington college of law professor. the u.k. putting londony of potential pandemic hotspots. on the virusmore resurgence in europe. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: this is bloomberg markets. coming up on "balance of power," we will hear from afl-cio at 12:30 p.m. in new york, 5:30 p.m. london. this is bloomberg. on the bloomberg first word news now. russian president vladimir putin is calling for an agreement with the united states to promise not to engage in cyber meddling in each other's elections and internal affairs, but u.s. officials say the kremlin is already trying to interfere in november's presidential election. bloomberg has learned that russian officials are growing increasing the rate about the prospect of a joe biden presidency, and what that would mean for sensitive issues including nuclear arms. china is hoping to produce more than one billion doses of coronavirus vaccine next year. that follows an aggressive government support program for the construction of new factories. china has 11 vaccine candidates in human trials. true of

scientists at bristol university and imperial college london hope the studies will help schools understand how the virus is transmitted. here's our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. this is the only testing done so far in schools, swab samples taken in the summer term. the level of coronavirus cases was low then. now, all pupils are back in school in england, cases are rising in the wiser —— wider community but still, little is known about children so, in bristol, researchers will use saliva tests. 4000 pupils, 1000 staff, once a month for six months. i think the main thrust of the study is really to understand the rates of infections and to be able to jump on them very quickly so we are giving them very quickly so we are giving the head teachers tools to be able to spot infection early and to keep their schools open and permit the continuity of education that is so important to them. catching cases early could mean fewer pupils isolating. another study in london would investigate more, following up on confirmed cases in pupils, looking in detail at youth and how they pass it on. branwen

institute it king's college london and co-author of putin versus the people and the belfast alex teves all of lecturer in modern european history and russia expert at queen's university belfast a warm welcome to everyone if i could stop perhaps with samuel so was this a free and fair election not entirely no i mean it's we've seen reports are on the ground route of election irregularities of the kind we become used to recent elections over the last decade and a half or so they also took a page from the constitutional plebiscite that they held earlier this year in which they spread their voting over number of days in this case 3 days which left a lot of room for early voting which of course is an monitor of all 5 aren't actually monitors and so there's the potential problem we don't really know about but you know the reality is that this is you know this was not a level playing field long before anybody got to the ballot box right so there's an even access to the bell is on even access to you know there is disruption of evil you to fundraise and to campaign right so the idea that this is are free and fair you know frankly falls apart or really anybody get the chance t

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honorary professor of public health at kings college london and dr bharat pankhania, an expert in communicable disease control & outbreak at the universityat a time? so could it be say six in the morning and a different set of six in the afternoon, or the next day? 0r, say a family with several grandchildren visiting in relay? yes, it means six is a time i guess you could do this in best if you like, morning, afternoon and evening, and yes you could ring the changes as much as you like that it has to be a limit of six people. that is your understanding as well, is it, doctor? yes it is, and there thenl is it, doctor? yes it is, and there then i am nodding my head in disappointment because automatically you are actually limiting mingling with 18 people all 24 people because you're having six in the morning, six at lunchtime, six and evening, six at lunchtime, six and evening, six in the late evening and therein is the fault in a sex gathering at one time. use the word mingling and that actually appears i think in the wording of these restrictions. what you by mingling? i mean that they are together in their way of eating, drinking, chatti