‘Eye of the storm’: Diverse east London grapples with virus

Redbridge enforcement officers close a click and collect shop to enforce lockdown measures in the town centre of Ilford in London, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. In parts of east London, the pandemic is hitting much harder than most places in the U.K. The borough of Redbridge had the nation’s second worst infection rate in January, with an estimated 1 in 15 residents thought to be infected.