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Daniel Keane

Number of London hospital beds occupied by flu patients ten times higher than last year

A nurse adjusts her PPE in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George’s Hospital in Tooting

(Picture: PA)

The number of hospital beds in London being occupied by flu patients is ten times higher than during the same period last year, figures show.

A total of 141 beds were occupied by flu patients in London's hospitals in the week up to November 20, as the capital's public health chief warned that cases of the virus were "rising rapidly".

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