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COVID-19: UK reimposes lockdown on Leicester

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The British government on Monday ordered schools and non-essential shops in the central English city of Leicester to close after a localised outbreak of coronavirus.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said nationwide moves to ease a three-month lockdown would be reversed in Leicester, where the infection rate is three times as high as the next worst-affected city.

Plans to reopen pubs, restaurants and cultural sites on July 4 would be scrapped in Leicester — although they will go ahead elsewhere in England — and locals are now being advised against all but essential travel.“These actions are profoundly in the national interest too. Because it’s in everyone’s interest that we control the virus as locally as possible.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson began easing nationwide stay-at-home orders last month but, in the face of accusations that he is moving too fast, has vowed to clamp down on any localised outbreaks.

 

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