Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the three-month trend in the level of covid-19 infection among over-60s in London.

The Office for National Statistics’ study shows that for those aged 50-69 years old, estimates of infection increased from 0.2% in mid-September to 0.8% in the last week of October before decreasing to 0.6% at the beginning of December.

The Real-Time Assessment of Community Transmission REACT-1 data also shows infection levels in over 60 year olds was 0.2% in September, 0.8% in October, 0.1% in November 0.4% at the beginning of December.