Tooting: Coronavirus cases soar with more than 65 per cent increase in last week

Coronavirus cases have soared in the past week for Tooting and its surrounding areas, recent figures reveal.

Wandsworth Borough has had 423 cases in the last seven days recorded (June 27 - July 3) , meaning the total number is up by 68.3 per cent.

Overall that leaves the borough with 1042 cases, which means for every 100,000 people there are 316.1 cases of Covid-19.

Tooting Bec East is the area that has seen the sharpest increase of cases , with 19 positive tests taking its overall total to 28 (211.1 per cent increase). 459.8 people for every 100,000 have the virus in that area.

The figures for positive cases in Wandsworth are worse than the national average and for London.

For the period between June 27 and July 3, London had 18,889 new cases, which works out to 210.8 people having caught the virus out of 100,000.

There were a total of 148,555 people who had positive tests during the same period, correlating to England having a rate of 263.9 people out of 100,000 having confirmed cases of Covid-19.

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