London coronavirus cases: Infections still tumbling as rate falls below key threshold in 23 boroughs

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ovid-19 circumstances have fallen so rapidly in components of London that one borough now has a seven-day price under 40, official figures reveal at present.

Confirmed circumstances are persevering with to fall quickest within the capital, in comparison with different areas.

Nonetheless, the decline within the illness within the metropolis is slowing, with the prospect that circumstances could begin to plateau in some areas after which creep up once more.

Islington had the bottom seven-day price of 38.8 new infections per 100,000 individuals within the week to February 18, after a fall in circumstances of 56.5 per cent in every week.

Tower Hamlets had a price of fifty.2, Camden 53.3, Westminster 54.3, Lewisham 56.9 and Bromley 57.5.

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London’s seven-day price was down 32.1 per cent within the week to February 18 to 86.8 new confirmed infections per 100,000, although the actual variety of circumstances is considerably increased, partly attributable to so many individuals have the illness asymptomatically.

The official figures present:

– An additional 923 circumstances introduced for the capital on Tuesday.

– 23 boroughs now have a seven-day price under 100, with 9 above this degree which public well being chiefs need areas throughout the town to get under earlier than lockdown is eased.

– Hounslow has the very best price at 153.6.

– Some boroughs noticed their price nudge up in comparison with earlier days.

– Well being chiefs say lowering circumstances additional as soon as ranges get low might be tougher as individuals catching the virus are sometimes these least capable of be shielded from it, corresponding to key staff or people who aren’t capable of earn a living from home.

– There have been 2,737 coronavirus sufferers in London’s hospitals as of Monday, down from a second wave peak of seven,917 on January 18, with 653 so unwell that they’re on ventilators.

The bottom Covid seven-day price within the nation is the South West on 75.4 after a weekly fall of 25 per cent, adopted by the South East on 84.7 following a drop of twenty-two.3 per cent, after which London.

The Jap area was on 102.1 down 22.7 per cent, Yorkshire and the Humber on 153 down 4.3 per cent, the North East 153.7 down 11.6 per cent, the North West 159.7 down 15.4 per cent, the West Midlands 163 down 16.9 per cent, and East Midlands 176.9 down 8.5 per cent.

The detailed figures for London present in:

* Islington there have been 94 circumstances within the week to February 18, down 122 (56.5%) with a seven-day price of 38.8

* Lewisham 174 circumstances, down 136 (43.9%) price 56.9

* Bromley 191 circumstances, down 148 (43.7%) price 57.5

* Tower Hamlets 163 circumstances, down 119 (42.2%) price 50.2

* Enfield 230 circumstances, down 160 (41%) price 68.9

* Hammersmith and Fulham 182 circumstances, down 113 (38.3%) price 98.3

* Greenwich 203 circumstances, down 126 (38.3%) price 70.5

* Wandsworth 239 circumstances, down 146 (37.9%) price 72.5

* Brent 368 circumstances, down 224 (37.8%) price 111.6

* Ealing 461 circumstances, down 277 (37.5%) price 134.9

* Merton 221 circumstances, down 127 (36.5%) price 107

* Richmond 130 circumstances, down 70 (35%) price 65.7

* Westminster 142 circumstances, down 76 (34.9%) price 54.3

* Havering 235 circumstances, down 121 (34%) price 90.5

* Lambeth 278 circumstances, down 142 (33.8%) price 85.3

* Haringey 195 circumstances, down 97 (33.2%) price 72.6

* Sutton 178 circumstances, down 88 (33.1%) price 86.3

* Newham 362 circumstances, down 169 (31.8%) price 102.5

* Camden 144 circumstances, down 62 (30.1%) price 53.3

* Barnet 333 circumstances, down 141 (29.7%) price 84.1

* Harrow 276 circumstances, down 114 (29.2%) price 109.9

* Waltham Forest 247 circumstances, down 90 (26.7%) price 89.2

* Barking and Dagenham 267 circumstances, down 97 (26.6%) price 125.4

* Hackney and Metropolis of London 190 circumstances, down 61 (24.3%) price 65.3

* Croydon 371 circumstances, down 119 (24.3%) price 95.9

* Hillingdon 439 circumstances, down 134 (23.4%) price 143.1

* Hounslow 417 circumstances, down 127 (23.3%) price 153.6

* Bexley 219 circumstances, down 63 (22.3%) price 88.2

* Kingston 176 circumstances, down 49 (21.8%) price 99.2

* Southwark 215 circumstances, down 58 (21.2%) price 67.4

* Redbridge 313 circumstances, down 78 (19.9%) price 102.5

* Kensington and Chelsea 126 circumstances, down 28 (18.2%) price 80.7.

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