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Stamford Hill’s Jewish community has ‘one of highest Covid infection rates in world’ John Dunne
The Orthodox Jewish community in Stamford Hill has been hit by one of the highest reported rates of Covid-19 “in the world to date”, according to research.
Across the UK the proportion of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 stands at seven per cent.
However among the 15,000 people in Stamford Hill’s Jewish community it is 75 per cent for working age adults, according to a report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr Michael Marks, who co-authored the research, said only a handful of studies have demonstrated similar rates. One of them was in Manaus, on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil.
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THE ALLEGATIONS
A source intimately involved in the Orthodox wedding scene, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “These illegal weddings have been going on for 10 months. We’re not talking about one or two. We are talking multiple weddings every day. All have 150-200 guests. At one wedding the bride was Covid-positive.”
THE VENUES
There are four venues that are used regularly, several sources confirmed – “anything that has a hall”. One is the taxpayer-funded Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School in Stamford Hill. “It’s the one that was caught,” said one person.
The school’s long-time principal, Rabbi Avroham Pinter, died from Covid-19 last spring. The new principal is his son, Chaim, who became a director of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in July last year.