According to Evening Standard analysis of the latest NHS England data, young people in London are the least likely in the country to have come forward for vaccination.
The capital has the lowest national take-up rates among the 18-24 and 30-34 age groups, while more than a third of Londoners under 25 remain unvaccinated.
Professor Kevin Fenton warned that young people were ending up in hospital, including in intensive care.
The news came as health chiefs hope a pop-up vaccination clinic at Heaven nightclub, near Charing Cross station, from 12-9pm on Sunday, will lead to a breakthrough in encouraging younger Londoners to have their first jab.
London’s “night czar” Amy Lamé told the Standard that the Heaven pop-up clinic would be “the first of several” such events, and that there were plans to use “various nightclubs around London” as vaccination centres.
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