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London Covid: Hammersmith and Fulham's infection rate has doubled in a week

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Published date21 December 2020
Date21 December 2020
It comes after the Prime Minister’s warning that a new, far more infectious strain of Covid-19 was spreading through London and the south east of England.

The most up to date figures from the Government show that, in the seven days before Wednesday December 16, there were 694 new confirmed cases in the borough.

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This gave Hammersmith and Fulham an infection rate of 375 positive cases per 100,000 people.

By comparison, the infection rate at the start of November – when the national lockdown began – was 210 per 100,000.

On Friday December 18, Hammersmith and Fulham Council wrote in its weekly newsletter that rates had “doubled” in a week.

Other London boroughs, particularly in the east, are seeing far more cases. Newham’s latest infection rate is 687 per 100,000. Havering’s current rate is 1,036 per 100,000.

Public Health England believes more than 60 per cent of the new cases in London are the new strain of coronavirus, which is suspected to be 70 per cent more infection than the standard strain of Covid-19.

Meanwhile, NHS chiefs at Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals are urging Londoners to stay at home over Christmas.

Professor Julian Redhead, medical director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: “Rates of coronavirus are rising rapidly in North West London. Our intensive care units are close to capacity, more people are getting...

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