Why aren't local lockdowns working? 🤔
Although the data shows the virus rate has risen from 118 to 133 since restrictions were first imposed, Labour says it did fall in the interim – and was higher just before the lockdown began on June 29.
Sir Keir said: ‘In the Prime Minister’s own local authority Hillingdon, today there are 62 cases per 100,000 yet no local restrictions. But in 20 local areas across England, restrictions were imposed when infection rates were much lower.Mr Johnson hinted that tougher measures could be needed in the capital and the Midlands.where, alas, we are also seeing infections rise,’ he said, as he called for a ‘concerted national effort’.
He added: ‘It’s always easier to reduce an outbreak at the earlier stage than to let it run and then try to reduce it at a later stage.Manchester Metropolitan University’s Birley campus where hundreds of students have been told to self-isolate after 127 of them tested positive for coronavirus They called for additional powers to punish those who break rules, for new restrictions to be developed by police, council and public health experts, and for a locally-controlled Test and Trace system.‘We want to be clear, however, that we do not support further economic lockdowns,’ the leaders said.
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