Coronavirus: Tier 3 fears for London as capital tops England’s infection rate table

Public Health England urging government to place the city’s nine million residents under tougher restrictions

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Coronavirus case numbers in London have soared to the highest rates recorded in all of England according to latest data that has triggered calls for the city to be placed under the most restrictive Covid rules.

The Public Health England (PHE) figures show that the capital had an highest average infection rate of 191.8 per 100,000 people in the week to 6 December - up from 158.1 per 100,00 in the previous seven days. Cases have increased in 24 of London’s 32 boroughs.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.