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Evening Standard
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Tom Ambrose and Barney Davis

UK Covid news LIVE: Londoners return to the office as report warns school pupils could take year to catch-up

Londoners returned to the office on Monday, with more commuters using the capital’s transport system, following the summer break.

As many school children went back to the classroom last week, more commuters and workers returned to their desks today.

It came as more than two million journeys were made on the Tube on Thursday as the return to school sparked the highest passenger numbers since the start of the pandemic.

The total of 2,034,000 was the first time the 2m landmark had been broken in 18 months and included 325,500 journeys in the 8am-9am rush hour, up 19 per cent on the previous week.

Meanwhile, two in five pupils did not meet the Government's minimum guidelines for remote learning time during Covid lockdown school closures earlier this year, a report suggests.

Schools could face challenges as pupils return this month because a quarter of parents believe it will take their child at least a year to catch up on lost learning, an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report says.

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