It’s embarrassing that my home city is the first to face an extended local lockdown due to spiralling Covid-19 rates, but it's also a huge relief
, a Labour man, the government hasn’t been giving the council the information it needs to follow up the spike in cases: people’s place of work, addresses, and so on. Maybe the government itself doesn’t have much idea of what’s going on., the home secretary, says there’ll be extra resources for testing in Leicester and contact tracing.
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