UK Covid Live: One in 35 Londoners and one in 55 in England had coronavirus last week, ONS figures say | World News

Condemning the wedding feast held at Stamford Hill, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has tweeted:

This is the most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear. At a time when we are all making such great sacrifices, it amounts to a blatant abrogation of the responsibility to protect life, and such illegal behavior is abhorred by the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community.

Public Health Wales said a total of 212,317 first doses of the Covid vaccine had already been administered, an increase of 21,882 from the previous day’s figure.

PA Media Reports:

The agency says 415 second doses were also administered, an increase of 19. Overall, 30.2% of those over the age of 80 have received their first dose of the vaccine, along with 59.9% of residents of nursing homes and 69.8% of nursing home staff. Health Minister Vaughan Gething previously said he expected 70% of those over 80, nursing home residents and nursing home staff to have received their first blow by January 25.

The latest statistics from ONS are available. Here are some of the key findings:

• During the week ending January 16, 2021, London had the highest percentage of people testing positive, with an estimated 2.89% of people in the capital having had Covid-19, which is equivalent to around 1 in 35 people.
• In England, the percentage of people who tested positive for Covid-19 remained high but decreased slightly in the week ending January 16, 2021. The ONS estimates that 1,023,700 people within the community population in England had the virus, which which is equivalent to about 1 in 55 people.
• In Welsh, the percentage of people who tested positive stabilized during the week ending January 16, 2021. The ONS estimates that 44,000 people in Wales had the coronavirus, which is equivalent to around 1 in 70 people.
• In North Ireland, the percentage of people who tested positive increased in the week ending January 16, 2021, while in Scotland the percentage of people who tested positive stabilized.

Read all the findings here.

Phillip Glanville, Mayor of Hackney in North london, has said that the Stamford Hill school, where Covid regulations were violated with a wedding celebration, had previously been used for similar events during the pandemic.

Police officers broke up a wedding with about 400 guests at the Yesodey Hatorah senior girls’ school on Egerton Road at 9.15pm Thursday night (see previous post).

Glanville told BBC News:

It’s a deeply disturbing incident at a time when we in Hackney have seen the highest number of reported deaths since last April. Unfortunately, similar events have taken place before even in this place and we must be very clear about how unacceptable it is.

A double dip recession is “in the cards” after the UKThe private sector saw a drop in activity this month due to the latest set of lockdown restrictions, new data indicates.

PA Media reports:

The IHS Markit / CIPS Flash UK composite PMI report, followed closely, showed a reading of 40.6 so far in January. Anything below 50 is considered a decrease in activity. It is significantly below analysts’ expectations, who forecast a reading of 46.1 for the month. A sharp drop in business activity in January puts the crippled UK economy on track to contract sharply in the first quarter of 2021, which means a double dip recession is looming, ”said Chris Williamson, chief business economist from IHS Markit.

Read our live business blog for the latest financial coverage.

New research from the Institute for Labor Studies has found that low-wage workers are more than twice as likely to have lost their jobs to the pandemic.

The findings, which you can read here in their entirety, say that around 4 million workers are likely to have been temporarily laid off or are working fewer hours than usual.

A wedding attended by about 400 people in a North london Police have dissolved the school and the organizer faces a fine of 10,000 pounds. Read the full Met statement here.

Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, yesterday announced a new £ 800 fine for people caught at house parties, signaling a tougher stance on flagrant violations of Covid guidelines.

Covid-related deaths are being investigated in more than 450 nursing homes in Scotland.

PA Media reports:

The dedicated Covid-19 Death Investigation Team (CDIT) of the Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal Service is investigating the circumstances of coronavirus-related deaths in 474 nursing homes across the country. The CDIT was created in May after Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC said that all confirmed or suspected deaths from coronavirus in nursing homes should be reported to the Crown Office, as well as deaths of people who may have contracted the virus in the job. The team had received 3,385 reports of death as of Thursday, and most of them are believed to be linked to people living in nursing homes.

There have been disproportionate rates of premature death from Covid-19 among Asian and black ethnic patients, a large cohort study found.

The research, published in the BMJ Open journal, is based on nearly 1,800 patients admitted to five acute care hospitals within the Barts Health NHS Trust between January 1 and May 13, 2020.

The study found that ethnic minority patients were younger and less frail, compared to white patients, reports PA Media.

It also showed that black patients were 1.8 times and Asians 1.54 times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit and need mechanical ventilation.

Study author Dr. Yize Wan, a clinical professor at Queen Mary University of London, said:

Our study shows the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on black and Asian groups at the first peak. Black and Asian people admitted to Barts Health hospitals with Covid-19 were significantly younger, had a higher severity of acute illness, and higher mortality relative to white patients of the same age and baseline health status. As the impact of Covid-19 continues to be seen within our community, the importance of responding to the ethnic disparities unmasked during the Covid-19 pandemic is crucial to avoid entrenching them and inflicting them on future generations.

Experts and politicians have called for high-risk ethnic minority groups to be prioritized for Covid immunizations, along with a targeted advertising campaign amid growing fears about vaccine skepticism.