Surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths raises calls for UK lockdown

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LONDON: COVID-19 cases in England are now doubling every nine days, official figures showed on Thursday (Oct 29), with the sharply increasing ...

LONDON: COVID-19 cases in England are now doubling every nine days, official figures showed on Thursday , with the sharply increasing death toll piling pressure on the government to take national action.

The national R rate, which indicates the number of people a COVID-19 case is likely to infect, rose to 1.6.Prevalence was highest in northern England, although rates were climbing across all age groups and all regions, according to the study. He eventually imposed a national lockdown in late March, shutting all non-essential shops and schools, and forcing millions to work from home to cut transmission rates.The stay-at-home measures were lifted in June as cases dwindled but as numbers spiked again from September, he has so far resisted calls for a second national lockdown.

But the Sun newspaper reported that government scientists now want stricter regulations as they warned there could be 25,000 COVID-19 patients in hospital by the end of November.

 

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