Bromley residents will be offered a hot meal and internet advice in a bid to encourage them to get their Covid-19 vaccine. NHS South East London has teamed up with local charity, Crystal Palace Community Trust, to encourage residents of Penge to get vaccinated at Anerley Town Hall.
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Community projects that will help Lewisham recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will be able to bid for community infrastructure levy (CIL) funding from May this year. Councils can apply a levy to developments in the borough – the money is to mitigate their impact and goes towards improving local infrastructure.
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Young people’s mental health is reaching a “crunch point” in London during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the London Assembly. A survey of more than 300 young people aged 16 to 25 found that almost 30 per cent had felt down, depressed or hopeless or had experienced feelings of anxiety nearly every day for the two weeks prior to taking the survey.
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Three schools in Bexley, all part of The Primary First Trust, are running their own food banks to support the local community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The three schools, Mayplace Primary School, Lessness Heath Primary School and Barnehurst Infant and Junior School, have created food banks to support their pupils and families who are finding it difficult to make ends meet through lockdown.
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For Chelsea Pensioner Thomas Wright this month heralded a red letter day as scarlet as his uniform. It meant that he could finally see his daughter Christine after lockdown rules meant nominated visitors could see their loved ones at care homes, even if they had to don face coverings.
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The Archdeacon of Croydon was the first person to be vaccinated at a new vaccination centre in the Centrale shopping centre. It opened yesterday and an area on the upper level near Starbucks has been transformed so jabs can be delivered by NHS staff and volunteers .
Read MoreThere are now fewer than 50 coronavirus patients being treated at Croydon University Hospital. But hospital boss Matthew Kershaw has warned against complacency.
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Now that more than 23 million UK adults have had their first Covid vaccine, and with infection rates in freefall, people are naturally itching for life to get back to normal. However, London’s chief nurse and the Government’s vaccines minister have explained why people who have had their second jab should keep following social distancing rules.
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“The heaviness and darkness just expanded throughout the year,” says Jolly Labarbera. He became a full-time carer last year after he was furloughed and then lost his job. Jolly says it took a while before he realised that he needed to get help with how he was feeling.
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A youth centre at the heart of a deprived community has lost out on tens of thousands of pounds because of the pandemic, but is committed to staying open regardless. The Marcus Lipton Youth Centre, on Minet Road, Brixton, has missed out on around £60,000 due to Coronavirus. The lost income is a result of the Centre not being able to hire out its spaces due to Covid restrictions.
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Whilst the Covid vaccination rollout continues to help protect the more vulnerable adults from the virus, tests of the vaccine have only recently got under way in some older children. As schools started their return as we gradually come out of lockdown teaching unions said they were dismayed staff had not been prioritised.
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Lambeth Council has become the first London borough to bring all Covid-19 contact tracing inhouse in a new pilot scheme. The council has recruited and trained new teams of tracers to work with residents to track contacts who may have been exposed to the virus.
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An MP has urged all residents to get vaccinated in a video with local leaders. Marsha de Cordova MP for Battersea has come together with local community and faith leaders, councillors and clinicians to build confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines.
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From Monday, 8 March, restrictions will ease very slightly meaning that people can meet outside with one other person for recreation. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced a four step roadmap for easing of the England-wide coronavirus lockdown last month.
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A father is planning to cut off his dreadlocks to raise money for the hospital that saved his daughter’s life after she developed a rare condition related to Covid-19. Molly Nana contracted Covid-19 at the end of November and started to deteriorate a few weeks later.
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Anti-vax campaigners went up against a plumbing company during an incident at the firm’s central London base. A determined group of mega-phone wielding anti-vaxxers congregated at Pimlico Plumbers Lambeth headquarters on March 4, protesting against the company’s support of the vaccination roll out.
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Up to 139,000 Londoners have had or are still experiencing long Covid according to new figures from the London Assembly. New research from the Office for National Statistics estimates that one in five people across the UK has had or still has long Covid, where symptoms such as fatigue or breathing problems persist for weeks or months after getting infected.
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Covid has had an “extremely destructive” impact on children affected by the horrific Grenfell disaster, according to some of their teachers. They are seriously worried by the behaviour of some kids after they returned to school in September following weeks of lockdown.
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Nearly three quarters of bus and Tube passengers quizzed by a travel watchdog reported wearing a face covering. The Transport Focus survey found nine out of ten people felt safe on the trains and four in five bus passengers.
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