No prizes for guessing where the lowest rate of take-up for the 3rd dose 'booster' vaccine…
Category: Coronavirus
Covid-19 cases rising everywhere, the pandemic ain’t over yet
UK cases of Covid-19 are rising and everyone is being urged to get vaccinated if eligible…
A doctor explains in Sylheti why everyone should take the Covid-19 vaccine.
A doctor explains in Sylheti why everyone should take the Covid-19 vaccine. No explanation needed.
Worldwide Covid News in Brief
Links to news and information about Covid-19 and related issues found on the interwebs.
ONS vaccine hesitancy survey geek session
The Office for National Statistics has published data around 'vaccine hesitancy' or 'negative vaccine sentiment'.
Tower Hamlets Covid-19 vaccination failures risks all
Data from the NHS shows that Tower Hamlets has a vaccination rate of 14%. This is…
Party goers face £16,000 fines for breaking lockdown rules
20 people fined for breaking lockdown rules after police raid.
Covid-19 vaccination round-up (with free video!)
Data published by NHS England indicates that Tower Hamlets CCG has one of the lowest vaccination…
Watershed moment as ethnicity, deprivation formally recognised as Covid-19 risk factors
Anew Covid-19 risk analysis tool, QCovid, will include ethnicity and race as factors that may cause…
Covid-19 wildfire in Tower Hamlets inevitable if vaccination reluctance not tackled
The number of people from ethnic minorities deciding not to have the Covid-19 vaccine is way…
Anyone fancy a grant? Free Covid grants here! Roll up!
An odd story of the two FoI responses and how one person was offered a Covid-19…
Covid-19 summary Tower Hamlets
This is a basic summary of Covid-19 data for Tower Hamlets which is taken directly from…
Don’t let your guard down Johnny! Mayor Biggs caught breaking Covid-19 lockdown
East London News has caught Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs breaking every Covid-19 lockdown rule in…
Ethnic minority children suffer most from rare post Covid-19 disease
Up to 10 children a week are being admitted to hospital with paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome…
What Tower hamlets Council is doing to encourage take up of the Covid-19 vaccine
Details of all the measures the council has in place to educate all of us about…
Covid-19 Vaccine Myth Busters – The Facts কোভিড -১৯ টি ভ্যাকসিন মিথের ব্যাস্টার্স – ঘটনাগুলি
Community leaders must get organised and help educate people about the importance of the Covid-19 vaccination
“Equality is for everyone” (apart from BAME people in a pandemic, natch)
Why is it that there is still no data to show how many people of BAME…
As with polio, so with Covid-19
while most people in the UK (82%) intend to get vaccinated there is a significant number…
Frontline COVID-19 NHS staff at Royal London Hospital need food
Frontline NHS Covid-19 staff at the Royal London Hospital are not getting fed properly, A fundraiser…
London boroughs Covid-19 cases 12 January 2021
Latest figures show that Tower Hamlets has an infection rate per 100,000 people of 1,167 and…
সুযোগ পাওয়ার সাথে সাথেই টিকা দেওয়া হবে
We want to make sure as many people from the Sylheti community in the borough get…
Covid-19 visual guides to where you live in Tower Hamlets
To make the pandemic experience as bad as possible we are bombarded with statistics and charts…
Dominoes fans busted in Whitechapel restaurant basement for Tier 4 breach
12 people hiding in the basement of a Whitechapel restaurant claimed to be playing dominoes when…
COVID Winter Grant Scheme to support vulnerable households
The DWP has announced details of a £170 million COVID Winter Grant Scheme for local authorities…
Hard up LBTH has no idea where £112m Covid-19 cash went
Whitehall has given £112m Covid-19 relief funding to Tower Hamlets council. A FOI response shows the…
London boroughs providing free meals to school children
Which London local authorities are supporting the campaign by Marcus Rashford to provide free school meals…
Poor housing, poor jobs to blame for BAME Covid–19 deaths
Poor living conditions and poor jobs cause of high BAME Covid-19 death rate
Covid-19 Culture Recovery Fund Grants Round 2 announced
Funds awarded to Tower Hamlets arts organisation by the Covid-19 Culture Recovery Fund Round 2 Grants…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing centres in Tower Hamlets
Another government run Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing centre has opened in Tower Hamlets bringing the total in…
Culture Recovery Fund Grants awarded to Tower Hamlets organisations
Funds awarded by the Covid-19 Culture Recovery Fund Round 1 Grants have been published for Tower…
Total numbers of COVID-19 positive cases on the rise across East London
Latest data shows that the threat of a second Covid-19 wave is turning into reality as…
Biggs warns of Covid-19 ‘matter of life and death’ do not visit households
Mayor Biggs is asking residents to not visit each others households to reduce the second wave…
September 2020 Covid-19 news roundup – pretty grim all round really
Covid-19 news roundup: why coronavirus may be endemic in poor areas, BAME children losing more in…
Keep Tower Hamlets Safe, Keep Tower Hamlets Trendy
Some bright spark decided our elected representatives needed Covid-19 face masks with a special message, Cllr.…
The Government has gagged the NHS. The media needs NHS staff to speak out.
What do you think? This lockdown same as the last one? Tier-4 just another inconvenience? A…