Coming up on the Peston podcast, two huge questions.

One are we winning against the virus?

It's been a very successful so far vaccination program

in the UK, but we are seeing the emergence

of mutations all over the country.

How safe will it be to ease lockdown and when?

Second big question, the mental health burden of lockdown, particularly on young people,

has been huge. Is the government doing enough to provide enough support to people who are suffering?

So I'll be talking these big questions over with the mental health

minister Nadine Doris with the world-respected epidemiologist Anders Tegnell who

is in charge of containing COVID in Sweden. Some aspects of his management

have proved controversial but within his peer group, he's

regarded as a very serious player.

And then we have Labour's Dorm Butler, Tory, former senior minister, David Davis, and providing

all the data that you could possibly want my colleague, the Nuskrastana.

First up, David Davis.

How worried are you that we're gonna struggle to keep ahead of these mutations,

the way that the virus is changing to defend itself?

Well, one, I'm surprised anybody surprised it's mutating.

I mean, it's an RNA virus, they mutate.

And when the World Health Organization was trying to track where it had gone

and where it had gone through the European Union and other parts of the world,

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