Sadiq Khan and Tony Blair today called for Covid vaccines to be fast-tracked to young people in places where the Indian Covid variant is surging. The London mayor said he asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock and vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to consider the plan to jab people as young as 18 in high risk areas, but the … Read more
London boroughs are still dragging behind the rest of the country in the Covid vaccine rollout, figures show as the Government pushes ahead with a campaign to get jabs to all remaining over-50s. NHS England statistics up to March 28 showed that up to 93 per cent of people over 50 – the last of … Read more
London is still lagging behind in the vaccine rollout with some boroughs having inoculated a third fewer people than parts of Staffordshire, where the crucial campaign appears to be roaring ahead. NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14 — the … Read more
London is still lagging behind in the vaccine rollout with some boroughs having vaccinated a third fewer people than parts of Staffordshire, where the crucial campaign appears to be roaring ahead. NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14 — the … Read more
Coronavirus death rates are up to 30 times higher in the worst-hit parts of Essex than rural regions of Scotland, official statistics have revealed. Data from the Government’s Covid dashboard show there have been 393 confirmed virus victims per 100,000 people in Castle Point, the highest of any authority in the UK. In second worst-hit … Read more
Three boroughs in and around London have become the UK’s Covid hot-spots for infection rates – with as many as 1 in 15 people having had the virus in one area alone. London’s Barking and Dagenham, the neighbouring borough of Redbridge, and the commuter area of Thurrock, in Essex, are all in the grips of … Read more
Three boroughs in and around London have become the UK’s Covid hot-spots for infection rates – with as many as 1 in 15 people having had the virus in one area alone. London’s Barking and Dagenham, the neighbouring borough of Redbridge, and the commuter area of Thurrock, in Essex, are all in the grips of … Read more
Britain’s outraged dentists are today calling on the Government to tackle a ‘national scandal’ that means more than 33,000 children a year have such rotten teeth that medics have no option but to surgically remove them. Children as young as five-years-old are being referred to hospital to have up to 18 of their 20 milk … Read more
None of London’s 33 boroughs are in England’s top 100 Covid hotspots, statistics show amid calls for the capital to be released from lockdown early. The highest infection rate is in Havering, east London, according to official statistics. It comes 106th in the league table of 317 authorities in England. Some 252 cases were diagnosed per every 100,000 … Read more
None of London’s 33 boroughs are in England’s top 100 Covid hotspots, statistics show amid calls for the capital to be released from lockdown early. The highest infection rate is in Havering, east London, according to official statistics. It comes 106th in the league table of 317 authorities in England. Some 252 cases were diagnosed per every 100,000 … Read more