Coronavirus cases in London almost double the national average as R rate hikes to 1.4
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Confirmed cases of coronavirus in London are almost double the national average, the latest official figures showed, as the capital continues to record the highest level of infection in the country.
An estimated 1 in 30 Londoners were infected with coronavirus in the week after Christmas, according to data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Around 81 per cent of positive cases in the capital showed infections of the new B117 Covid mutation, which has proven to be much more transmissible than the earlier strain.
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School children sent 60 hand-drawn Christmas cards to the chief executive of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust calling for an end to migrant charges. More than sixty pupils from years five and six at St Mary’s CE Primary School in Lewisham decided to campaign on the issue after seeing the effects of the charging policy on their friends and family. It followed a listening exercise with pupils and parents by Lewisham Citizens, part of community organising group Citizens UK, asking them what they wanted to make change on. The NHS provides free healthcare to anyone who is a legal resident of the UK but is required by law to charge migrants or patients who are not ordinarily residents in the UK since a coalition decision in 2015 to tackle ‘health tourism’.
School children sent 60 hand-drawn Christmas cards to the chief executive of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust calling for an end to migrant charges. More than sixty pupils from years five and six at St Mary’s CE Primary School in Lewisham decided to campaign on the issue after seeing the effects of the charging policy on their friends and family. It followed a listening exercise with pupils and parents by Lewisham Citizens, part of community organising group Citizens UK, asking them what they wanted to make change on. The NHS provides free healthcare to anyone who is a legal resident of the UK but is required by law to charge migrants or patients who are not ordinarily residents in the UK since a coalition decision in 2015 to tackle ‘health tourism’.