{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9475d117-fcd4-4915-a6f3-923941e7aa0d/693aace94d362887b706c875?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Super flu cases soar in the capital as Londoners urged to get vaccinated ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba05fc1a8cbed4343cf0e6/1765453025356-44597f93-3002-4543-b5a9-214984497978.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Londoners are being urged to get the flu vaccine in the next few days to get maximum protection by Christmas Day, as the capital experiences a tidal wave of contagious super flu.</p><p><br></p><p>Cases are rising sharply in the capital, new figures revealed, as health chiefs warned the NHS was facing a “worst-case scenario” with the doctors’ strike set to start next week.</p><p><br></p><p>Those with flu-like symptoms are being urged to stay at home rather than risk spreading the virus on the Tube, trains, buses and in the workplace.</p><p><br></p><p>The Standard’s Political Editor Nic Cecil is here with the latest.</p>","author_name":"The Evening Standard"}