Image: Royal Voluntary Service. Image detail: Iona Lidington via Kingston Council. The number of new cases of Covid-19 is rising in Kingston again after weeks of decline in the borough and across South London. On Tuesday (March 16) the Surrey Comet caught up with Director of Public Health on Kingston Council, Iona Lidington, to see what was behind the latest data on cases and how authorities in the borough are responding. Why are the numbers of new cases in Kingston rising? There are a couple of reasons why we've seen the rate, which is quite variable at the moment, bump up a little bit...