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While they’re run by Whitehall, England’s local lockdowns are bound to fail – The Guardian
Without a proper strategy for suppressing Covid, this reliance on tweaking restrictions will only ever be partially successful, says academic Gabriel Scully

It is no surprise that the prime minister cant remember the details of the latest social restrictions introduced in the north-east of England. I doubt whether very many people could be entirely sure what they should or should not be doing, except in their local area, and maybe not even then.
The messages emanating from Downing Street have been unclear and inconsistent for some time. The governments financial and political commitment to the eat out to help out scheme, as well as its exhortations…
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