London has recorded no Covid deaths in a 24 hour period for the first time in six months.
Official Public Health England (PHE) figures show that, on 28 March, the capital reported zero coronavirus deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
This is the first day no death were reported in London since September.
At the height of the first wave of the pandemic last April, London recorded around 230 coronavirus-related deaths per day and accounted for 12 per cent of all UK Covid deaths.
Since the start of the pandemic, some 18,000 people who have died in London hospitals had coronavirus listed on their death certificates.
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The news comes as England takes its next steps out of lockdown on 29 March, with the stay at home rule scrapped and the group of six rule reinstated.
People from two households, regardless of the number of people, are also allowed to gather in outdoor spaces.
However, a junior doctor warned against false hope, although they did welcome the news.
They told Sky News: “We cannot falsely reassure ourselves it’s over, we have been in this situation before last autumn and rates and deaths increased again in the winter.”
He added, however, that the vaccine is “prevented admission” and “having a positive knock on effect.”
Official statistics now show that more than 30,000,000 people have been given their first vaccine dose, which is 45 per cent of the population.
More than five per cent of the population have now received their second dose of the vaccine.
