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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Lydia Chantler-Hicks

People urged to take gonorrhoea tests and use condoms as cases soar

The Government is urging people to test for gonorrhoea - as cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) have soared since Covid.

New figures show gonorrhoea diagnoses in the first nine months of last year rose to more than 56,000 - 21 per cent higher than the same period in 2019.

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