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All of London’s boroughs have been made areas of “concern”, Public Health England’s latest coronavirus weekly surveillance report said.
The report shows the seven-day rolling average of case rates in the capital, with the rate in the City of London estimated at 185.4 per 100,000 people, while in Havering it stands at 139.2.
