Four times as many Londoners have had Covid compared to Cornwall residents, study finds
FOUR times as many Londoners have had Covid compared to Cornwall residents, according to the largest study of its kind.have been infected since the start of the pandemic.Research found that one in eight Londoners have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemicMore than 100,000 volunteers used antibody home-testing kits to track the spread of the virus.
It is more than ten times higher than the 314,000 Brits who have so far tested positive for coronavirus.The study found 17 per cent of black and 12 per cent of Asian volunteers had antibodies against the virus – compared to just five per cent of white participants. And 12 per cent of frontline NHS staff also tested positive for antibodies, compared to just five per cent of people who were not key workers.
He said: "Clearly the numbers are still very big and that explains the high levels of mortality we've seen, but as a proportion of the overall population it's still relatively small, except in some groups where the prevalence is higher such as for people of Asian and black ethnicity.
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