The report revealed that benefits claims and food bank usage was up during the pandemic, while rough sleeping fell. Credit: PA/Newsquest A new report has revealed the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted Londoners. Trust for London’s latest annual Poverty Profile has revealed that the number of people using food banks increased by 128 per cent in London between September 2019 and 2020, compared to a 56 per cent increase in the rest of England. The report also revealed that Londoners living in more deprived areas were more likely feel the health and economic impacts of the pandemic. While the Covid-19 mortality rate is higher in London than anywhere else in England, the most deprived areas of the capital had mortality rates up to 23 per cent higher than the least deprived areas.
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Khalil Dhantejvi, one of the most prolific poets in Gujarati language, died on Sunday
Vadodara: Mana ki zindagi se bahot pyaar hain magar, kab tak rakhonge kaanch ke bartan sambhal kar (We know that you love life immensely, but how long will you take care of the glassware?) the man, who wrote these lines that were later sung by ghazal maestro late Jagjit Singh, is no more.
Khalil Dhantejvi, one of the most prolific poets in Gujarati language, died at the age of 82 in Vadodara due to age-related issues on Sunday.
Born in a poor family in Dhantej village of Vadodara’s Savli taluka, Khalil could not complete his formal education beyond Class IV. But from a very young age he started mastering the art of writing, turned into an author, poet, journalist and columnist.
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