UK Covid: Whitty says he expects further surge in winter; more than 11,000 new cases recorded – as it happened
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Prof Jeremy Brown, professor of respiratory infection at University College London and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, has said some parts of the capital could have January-type levels of hospitalisation later this year because of poor vaccine take-up.
In London 69.7% of adults have had one dose, and 44.6% two doses, compared with 80.1% and 58.2% respectively in the UK as a whole.
There's certainly a risk that there could be a significant wave that locally in those places might translate into something which might approach what happened in January, I would really sincerely hope not.
Still, a very high portion of the population in those boroughs has been vaccinated and that will slow transmission. And therefore that should slow the number of people coming into hospital and make it more manageable.
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