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A nurse in the intensive care unit at St George's Hospital in Tooting - the number of intensive care beds in the clinic in south-west London has recently increased significantly
Photo: Victoria Jones / dpa
Boris Johnson cycled through the Olympic Park on Sunday.
The former mayor has warm memories of his best time as a politician with the site in East London.
What the British Prime Minister saw this time, however, may not have pleased him.
People on park benches, engrossed in a lively chat.
People in small groups around fitness equipment.
People close together in the playgrounds.
Many people.
Too many.
Especially in a city that has declared a disaster.
Many Londoners interpret the lockdown rules rather loosely these days.
Including Johnson himself, who, strictly speaking, would have had no business in the Olympic Park.
After all, current government guidelines state that English people should only play sports around their homes, if at all.
And Johnson lives on Downing Street, twelve kilometers away.
But with the rules, which have been rewritten, supplemented and turned upside down more than 60 times since March, it's such a thing.
Many do not understand it or do not care (anymore) about it.
When the sun was shining for the first time in a long time, countless citizens made a pilgrimage to Hampstead Heath, one of the largest parks in London.
A long line formed in front of the local farmers' market and a singer entertained the people with songs from better times - including Queen's “The Show Must Go On”.
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