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Covid exodus: London s population may have plunged by 700,000 during pandemic
5 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM
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Road cleaners at work in Ilford, London on January 29. Photo / AP
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Tom Rees
Even when the last Covid restrictions are lifted from London, there may be a little less bustle on its streets and elbow-jostling at its drinking dens.
One startling estimate that has caught the eye of economists warned the UK capital s population may have plunged by 700,000 during the pandemic. That would equate to an 8 per cent drop and be the first slump in London s population in more than 30 years.
Russia has a population of 146.2 million, according to newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, citing the agency.
Experts attributed the decline mainly to the pandemic.
There were 229,700 more deaths between January and November 2020 than in the same period the previous year, an excess mortality rate of more than 13 percent, the agency said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long called for greater efforts towards population growth. Last year, he blamed the trend on low incomes.
Experts say further causes are the migration of younger, well-educated people abroad and the low birth rate.
Similar trends
This month, statistics from Poland and the United Kingdom, have shown similar trends.
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The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September. More than four million had now been vaccinated. The campaign was on target to vaccinate 15 million by mid-February. A ten-day trial would see some hospitals open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Racecourses, sports arenas and even cathedrals such as Salisbury, Lichfield and Blackburn became vaccination centres. St Paul’s Cathedral in London suspended public worship because of the danger of coronavirus, as did more than half of Church of England churches.
At the beginning of the week, Sunday 17 January, total deaths (within 28 days of testing positive for the coronavirus) had stood at 88,590, including 7,722 in the past week. Hospitals came under great pressure, with more than 37,000 in-patients with Covid. One of the Brazilian variants was found in Britain and another was suspected. All visitors from abroad would have to show a negative test and keep t