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- London will move to the “high” level of Covid-19 amid rising new infections.
- Starting Saturday, Londoners will be banned from mingling with other homes in homes and other indoor settings.
- UK Health Minister Helen Whateley announced the news to members of Parliament in London on a call Thursday morning.
- For more stories, visit Business Insider South Africa.
Domestic mixing will be banned in London from midnight on Friday after Boris Johnson’s British government said the English capital would move to the “high” level of Covid-19 amid rising new infections, they have reported the members of the Parliament of the capital.
As of Saturday, Londoners will be banned from mingling with other households in homes and other indoor settings, including places of hospitality, after the UK government agreed with London Mayor Sadiq Khan that the city required restrictions. stricter to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
UK Health Minister Helen Whateley announced the news to members of Parliament in London in a call Thursday morning, and Prime Minister Johnson is expected to confirm it in a statement later that day.
The inhabitants of the capital will be able to continue visiting pubs, bars and restaurants, but only with people from the same household.
Khan has been pushing for London’s alertness to change from “medium” to “high” and had a meeting with UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty on Wednesday, the Times reports. From london.
London was placed in the least serious category – “medium” – when Prime Minister Johnson unveiled the government’s new tiered system for enforcing local closures earlier this week.
However, while the number of infections and hospitalizations in the capital is not as high as in the north of England, they have been growing exponentially with Khan this week warning that the virus was spreading “so fast”.
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