England to enter second lockdown in days, says Boris Johnson
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England will enter a second national lockdown in the coming days, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. The decision came hours after the UK passed the grim milestone of one million coronavirus cases.
The month-long shutdown will come into effect from Thursday after a parliamentary vote early next week, Johnson said during a news conference on Saturday evening."We must act now to contain the autumn surge," he said.
The strict lockdown will see the closure of pubs, restaurants and non-essential businesses, including hair salons and gyms. Schools, universities and playgrounds will stay open.
People will only be able to leave their homes for specific reasons: education, work (if they are unable to work from home), to shop for food, for health reasons, or for exercise and recreation outdoors, either with that person's household or with one person from another household.
The Office for National Statistics now estimates that 1 in 100 people in England have Covid, an average of 568,100 people. That's compared with 1 in 2,300 in July and 1 in 200 at the start of October.
