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- Boris Johnson has declared war on fat as an increasing body of research suggests a link between obesity and Covid-19 deaths. James Forsyth has the details below.
- Some 20% of Londoners are thought to have caught Covid-19 and now less than 24 people a day in the capital are being infected with the virus, a Cambridge model predicts. This chimes with testing data below.
- The model also suggests that one in five children and one in nine adults – 6.5 million in total – are understood to have contracted the virus.
- New NHS data reveals one in four of those who died with Covid-19 also had diabetes, while one in five had dementia and one in six had chronic pulmonary disease.
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