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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu, and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Kate Andrews.

There's another day and a number of daily cases seems to have fallen yet

again. Kate, what's the latest? So the number of cases being reported daily is now following.

It looks like it may have hit his peak around 50, 55,000 cases about a week ago. And now we have

something around 35,000 cases being reported daily. Now, take the

figures with a pinch of salt, because these numbers are revised, and often when they're revised,

they go up, but it's unlikely it would be revised up by, you know, tens of thousands of cases.

So on the whole good news and the graphs show it, you are now seeing that slight decline.

This could be for a myriad of reasons.

It could be that the virus has peaked, that the increased vaccinations are helping with that, certainly.

It could be that people are changing their behavior.

As we've seen, you know, so many more cases reported, as it looked like the virus was going,

was going up exponentially.

It might be that people decided to stay indoors, shield themselves, not wanting to get COVID.

We're also suffering with Pynemic, the idea that if you are told to isolate by NHS test

and trace, you must do so. I think it's like 600,000 people were asked to do so in the previous week.

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