Overview
- UKHSA confirms 34 laboratory-verified cases in Enfield from 1 January to 9 February, with more than 60 suspected across seven schools and a nursery.
- Health officials say the cluster is mostly in unvaccinated children under 10, and local NHS messaging reports about one in five recent cases needed hospital care.
- Only 64.3% of five-year-olds in Enfield had received two MMR doses in 2024/25, among the lowest coverage rates nationally.
- Enfield Council and NHS teams are writing to parents, running temporary school vaccination clinics, and applying guidance that unvaccinated close contacts can be excluded from school for up to 21 days.
- UKHSA highlights modelling that a London outbreak could reach 40,000–160,000 cases if coverage stays low, and the WHO has removed the UK’s measles elimination status.