‘Almost 2,000 a day’ without masks

Transport for London (TfL) staff have caught nearly 2,000 people a day not wearing masks on its buses, according to new figures.

Between Saturday 4th July and Sunday 2nd August, staff stopped 53,900 travellers without mandatory face coverings on buses run by TfL.

The figure includes 4,888 passengers that compliance officers either stopped from boarding or ejected from a bus.

TfL said it was ‘a tiny proportion of the 70 million journeys made on buses’ over the same period.