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“We’re seeing another wave of Covid-1 of now,” Prime Minister Boris Jones said.
Mr Johnson said he did not “want to go into a major lockdown move” but that restrictions on strict social distance could be necessary.
It is understood that a new set of three-tier sanctions is being considered.
The plan aims to avoid a national lockdown but could cut off domestic contact.
The first level will now be a level of action currently taking place in most parts of England – with the main aspect given the social distance.
The second phase includes what is currently being imposed in the Northeast – a curfew on hospitality venues and a ban on meetings between homes.
The final third tier will include strict lockdown measures.
It is speculated that in the UK it may be in a “tier two” position – however, it is being framed on a region-by-region basis rather than a national curfew.
An account of the steps taken at the meeting has been shared with the BBC. It explained that the government’s shielding policy was also being “actively reviewed” and that a decision on further measures to protect vulnerable people could be made soon.
Any further defense decisions are expected to take a more favorable approach than before.
With the virus expected to intensify in the winter, officials are considering measures that could last until the spring.
Earlier, the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenzberg said the government was considering a short-term set of strict rules in England, which could be announced next week.
‘It’s hard to keep up’
It is coming as another 4,322 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been reported in the UK.
Referring to the steps introduced by the PM on Monday, he said that when you look at what has clearly happened you will wonder whether we need to go beyond the six rules we have brought.
He added that “the British people have done a wonderful job – they have come down to that peak through discipline” but that “people find it difficult to maintain this discipline, it is difficult to maintain that discipline for a long time”.
Speaking in Oxford, Mr Johnson continued: “As we look at this special turn and what is happening now we will clearly keep everything under review. I don’t want to go to another national lockdown, this is the last thing anyone wants.
“I don’t want to go into a big lockdown at all. We want to keep schools open and it’s amazing that schools are back the way they are. We want to keep the economy open as long as possible, we want to keep businesses going.
“Obviously the only way we can do this is if people follow the guidance.”
The government is also considering calling it a “circuit-break” approach, which could be reintroduced into public spaces for a period of a few weeks to suppress the spread of the virus. Schools and workplaces will remain open.
Ideas suggested by the government’s Scientific Emergency Advisory Group for Crisis include closing some parts of the hospitality sector.
Meanwhile, new measures to prevent the spread of the virus have been introduced in parts of the Northwest, Midlands and West Yorkshire.
‘UK ball not written in stone’
The question now is not where we are, but where we are going.
Yes, the number of people infected or dying from the disease in the hospital with covid is much lower than at the peak.
Scientists will be confused about the exact definition of the “second wave”, but all the data point to an increasing number of infections.
The government’s science advisers say the number is now doubling every week.
If those trends continue, infections could reach an estimated 6,000-a-day to more than 100,000 by mid-October.
That is the way, which is not written in stone, the government is trying to change.
There are questions for politicians, whether they should “circuit break” to correct the test and trace.
But, the evidence suggests that only one in five people follow the rules of self-isolation when illness occurs, there are questions for all of us as well.
These include Lancashire (excluding Blackpool), Merseyside and Washington and Cheshire boroughs of Halton.
New bans are also being placed in Wolverhampton, Ad Dobby and Wigston in Leicestershire and all parts of Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale.
Some areas of West Yorkshire were already subject to sanctions imposed in early August but they were relaxed. Now they are subject to these new rules.
With the new restrictions, a total of nearly.7 million people will be affected, prohibiting people from different households from meeting each other in home or private gardens.
