we've seen in the world there have been
ten point two million cases and
confirmed by testing and half a million
deaths in the UK we've had three hundred
eleven thousand confirmed cases by
testing and as we've said before perhaps
seven percent of the population only
have been affected and we know that's
forty three and a half thousand
confirmed deaths across all settings
according to official statistics but by
excess mortality well in excess of sixty
five thousand that we don't have precise
figures day by day sometimes we see
quite low figures for the number of
infections but looking week on week
really it's remaining very static George
hands Klug the European director of the
World Health Organization has warned
this week of increasing outbreaks across
many countries and settings including
Sweden Spain Germany as we discussed
last week which has an increase in its
our rate up to 2.8 and that was just
associated with a few local outbreaks
what we're still not doing well in this
country is testing and tracing and as a
result of that really we're seeing a
static number of of deaths currently and
as you say lifting of the lockdown
implies that in after the the usual
observed lag of two to three weeks
we're very likely to see significantly
increased numbers again middle you know
if you just look at this week we've had
close to thousand deaths and that's
likely to go up because there as you
know they they registered late and the
numbers are always revised upward so
really we're not seeing decreasing
numbers and if you look at that the the
rate of infection is around static in
most areas of the country so it's a
problem at the moment that simply isn't
going away George
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