Boris Johnson has announced a second national lockdown to prevent medical and moral disaster for the NHS. The four-week Lockdown will be effective from Thursday midnight. Anika Khan reports.
Here is everything you need to know about the second lockdown and the new regulations placed:
- All the restaurants, pubs, leisure, and hospitality venues will be closed. However, all educational institutes along with essential shops will remain open.
- Takeaways through delivery services will remain open.
- People are allowed to leave their homes for work, education, and only essential purposes.
- When outdoors, families should mix with their household peoples and allowed to mix with one person from outside.
- Non-essential retail stores will remain closed.
- A ban will be imposed on household mixing indoors. Support bubbles for single adult households are exceptions.
- The second lockdown is expected to be imposed until December 2.
- The lockdown can extend if the data on the spread of the virus doesn’t show improvement.
UK passed one million COVID-19 cases on Saturday. Official statistics have shown a 47% jump in new cases in just one week. Scientists fear the death to reach 500 a day within the upcoming weeks. Adding with it is the pressure on NHS to cope with the second wave of COVID-19.
