At least nine children have now died with a Strep A infection across the UK, with health officials also reporting a surge in scarlet fever cases. Typically, Strep A infections are mild... Read more »
There has also been a 28 per cent increase in the number of people with the virus being admitted to hospital in the capital, with the number of beds occupied by Covid... Read more »
Aboriginal Congress calls for ‘complete lockdown’ of Central Australia. Health Minister Natasha Fyles disagrees Central Australia’s peak Aboriginal health body has warned “a Tsunami of COVID cases is coming” to the region... Read more »
Prof Neil Ferguson, the scientist who helped shape Britain’s coronavirus lockdown strategy, said he was “cautiously optimistic” that Omicron infections had plateaued in London and could reduce in the next week. Ferguson,... Read more »
L ondon has passed the peak of Omicron infections, the capital’s public health chief has declared. Professor Kevin Fenton told a City Hall webinar on Covid that cases and hospitalisations were now... Read more »
New Covid-19 cases in Southwark were down by more than twenty per cent for the second week in a row this week. New infections dropped by 23.7 per cent to 4,501 in... Read more »
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News The number of London Health Sciences Centre employees with COVID-19 has nearly doubled in less than a week to 104. Author of the article: Jennifer Bieman Publishing... Read more »
Today’s figures from the UK Health Security Agency include a further 72 cases in England, 28 in Scotland and one in Wales Omicron cases in the UK hit 437 as 101 new... Read more »
The sustained drop in infections comes despite London lagging behind other regions of the country on vaccination. Hounslow, which has the highest rate of cases per 100,000 people in London at 322,... Read more »
A further 86 cases of the new Omicron COVID variant have been reported in the UK, taking the total to 246. This compares with a total of 160 yesterday – an increase... Read more »
