Teddington: Covid rates in borough are highest in London

By Ellie Brown - Local Democracy Reporter

5th Nov 2021 | Local News

Richmond borough currently has the highest infection rate in London but the Council say there is no specific reason why the borough is hardest hit.

The authority said it is seeing a rise in the number of young people testing positive.

The borough had an infection rate of 463 per 100,000 people, according to latest government data from October 28, an increase over the last three weeks.

Teddington's covid rate is also above average for the borough.

Two out of the 3 Teddington wards, Teddington Central and Teddington North, both have infection rates above 500 per 100,000 people.

Hampton Wick & Teddington East is lower with a rate of 429.1 per 100,000 people.

But across the river in Ham, the rate is 967.7 - the highest in the borough and higher than the UK hotspot of Tewkesbury.

Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire currently has the UK's highest infection rate of 831.1 per 100,000 – almost double that of London's highest boroughs.

Overall, the top 10 Covid London hotspots are: Richmond, Sutton, Kingston, Barnet, Hounslow, Harrow, Hillingdon, Havering, Ealing and Bexley.

Interestingly, in parts of Central London, infection rates are some of the lowest in the UK.

Westminster has the UK's second lowest infection rate after the Shetland Islands according the government dashboard with 169 cases per 100,000.

Southwark has the UK's third lowest, followed by Tower Hamlets, Camden, Hackney and City of London, Newham, Lewisham, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth and Islington.

Coronavirus 'hotspots' and 'notspots' are revealed on an interactive map charting the number of positive Covid-19 test results in each borough across the country using government data.

The number of new cases is then used to calculate the infection rate per 100,000 people.

London recorded 2,935 coronavirus cases on November 2, taking the total to 1,185,240 since the pandemic started, according to government data.

But this number of daily cases has stayed consistent since the start of September 2021, despite a spike in mid-October.

There were 13 Covid deaths recorded on November 2 in the capital and 16,743 have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. Deaths have plateaued since September.

Over six million people in London have been given a first dose of a Covid vaccine with almost 5.5 million having had both jabs.

See the interactive map of cases HERE.

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