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Daniel Keane

Number of London children being admitted to hospital with asthma rises 64% in a year

A man holds an inhaler (file picture)

(Picture: PA Wire)

The number of children being admitted to hospital with asthma in London has risen by 64 per cent in a year, according to new analysis, as Mayor Sadiq Khan vowed to clean up the capital's "filthy" air.

More than 3,600 children were hospitalised with the lung condition across London in 2021/22, an increase of more than 1,400 on the year before.

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