UK Government announce major local lockdown – FXStreet

Government announce major local lockdown covering Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire.
Separate households are banned from meeting indoors from midnight tonight. This is significantly larger than Leicester’s lockdown.
The BBC reported that the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said an “increasing rate of transmission” had been identified in those areas.
“The spread is largely due to households meeting and not abiding to social distancing,” he said.
He also said the sa…

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