days of a positive test. 115 covid related deaths were recorded on average every day in the past week. 0n vaccinations just over 537,000 people a day had boosters on average in the past seven days, bringing the total to more than 25.4 million people. london is currently being hit hardest by the wave of new infections. case rates in the capital are the highest and rising the fastest. hospital admissions are also on the rise too. with so many people becoming infected at the same time, there are concerns about staffing levels, not least in the nhs. our health editor hugh pym reports from st george s hospital in tooting, south london. in intensive care staff know that a covid wave is coming their way again. patient numbers have already started creeping up and they have been warned to prepare for more in a few weeks time. we have been told to try and plan for at least as bad as last winter,
number of care homes. so that, the number of hospitals and the number of institutions looking after people s mental health is higher here than it is in the more central areas. that leads to really high numbers of missing persons cases every year. three siblings have told the bbc how the were struck the bbc how they were struck by lightning on monday while sheltering under a tree near hampton court palace. you wouldn t know, but this was the moment it happened. rachel, isobel and andrewjobson were taking a selfie at the time and captured it on camera. they were taken to st george s hospital in tooting but later discharged. reading festival is one step closer to going ahead this summer. the local council granted an event licence, but says there needs to be detailed consideration on how to minimise the risk of covid. the festival is expected to take place during the last weekend in august. archaeologists working on the hs2 project in west london have made a once in a lifetime discovery.
people in the capital have been reported missing more than 300 times, placing a huge responsibilty on officers who risk assess each case. the force says it s working with care homes to try and reduce the number of calls it receives. the borough of croydon sees more missing person reports in a year than the whole of germany does. what we see is a really high number of care homes. so that, the number of hospitals and the number of institutions looking after people s mental health is higher here than it is in the more central areas. that leads to really high numbers of missing persons cases every year. three siblings have told the bbc how they were struck by lightning on monday while sheltering under a tree near hampton court palace. rachel, isobel and andrewjobson were taking a selfie at the time and they managed to capture it on camera. they were taken to st
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