A nationwide lockdown is being referred to as up by the chief of the opposition.
Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer has informed Prime Minister Boris Johnson to usher in new nationwide Covid restrictions inside the subsequent 24 hours, slightly than trace that he’ll achieve this quickly.
Sir Keir informed reporters: “The virus is clearly uncontrolled and there’s no good the Prime Minister hinting that additional restrictions are coming into place in every week, or two or three.
“That delay has been the supply of so many issues. So, I say usher in these restrictions now, nationwide restrictions, inside the subsequent 24 hours.
“That needs to be step one in direction of controlling the virus.”
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The Authorities stated an additional 454 individuals have died inside 28 days of testing optimistic for Covid-19 as of Sunday, bringing the UK complete to 75,024.
Separate figures revealed by the UK’s statistics businesses for deaths the place Covid-19 has been talked about on the dying certificates, along with further information on deaths which have occurred in latest days, present there have now been 91,000 deaths involving Covid-19 within the UK.
The Authorities stated that, as of 9am on Sunday, there had been an additional 54,990 lab-confirmed instances of coronavirus within the UK.
It brings the overall variety of instances within the UK to 2,654,779.
The figures don’t symbolize outcomes from the entire UK on account of information on deaths not being reported by Scotland on Sunday.
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