London sees big drop in number of Covid vaccinations despite drive to get young people inoculated

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The number of jabs being given in the capital has fallen alarmingly in the last week despite efforts to encourage young Londoners to get vaccinated.

A total of 374,941 first and second Covid-19 vaccine doses were administered in the last seven days, almost 52,000 or 12 per cent fewer than the 426,648 given in the previous week, the Standard can reveal.

This is despite the use of football and rugby stadiums as mass vaccination centres and pleas from Mayor Sadiq Khan and London NHS chiefs to get jabbed.

By the end of Saturday night, 75 per cent of the 6.9m adult Londoners had received one dose and 50 per cent both doses, according to NHS England data.

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