Narsi Patel, an elderly patient at Kingston Hospital, receives his vaccination against Covid-19. Image: Kingston Hospital via Twitter.
A number of boroughs in South West London showed a fall in the total new Covid-19 cases confirmed over a seven-day period, new data has shown, though the prevalence of the virus remains high across the region.
In the week up to January 9, many boroughs in the South West of the capital reported fewer new cases of the virus than they had in the previous week according to Public Health England (PHE), suggesting a positive impact was now being felt by the latest lockdown measures brought in to slow the spread of coronavirus.