Tube journeys up 8% after work-from-home Covid guidance ends

There had already been signs of growing weekday journeys in London throughout the month. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

There have been signs of a growing return to office working in London, with 8% more journeys recorded on the London underground network compared with a week ago.

The increase came after the government ended work-from-home guidance immediately on Wednesday afternoon, with Sajid Javid claiming the Omicron coronavirus variant was “in retreat”, despite the number of new infections running at more than 100,000 a day.