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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering plans for a second lockdown on Monday (9/21/2020), due to the increasingly massive spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Johnson will decide and broadcast this on Tuesday (9/22/2020).
Britain is now recorded to have the highest death toll in the European region and the fifth largest in the world. Still, Britain is currently recovering its economy by pumping in emergency government money.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Matt Hancock said the closure this time would be different than before: the government will continue to socialize, and schools and many workplaces will be allowed to open.
“If we have to act, it will be different from last time, and we have learned a lot about how to deal with the virus,” he told ITV.
“School is not where a lot of contagion happens, it’s more about people socializing.”
Regarding the Christmas holidays and the people who will meet and hug their relatives in December, Hancock said he wanted the moment to happen as normally as possible.
“If this gets out of hand now, we will have to take tougher action in the future,” Hancock said.
Confirmed Covid-19 cases are only increasing by 6,000 people per day. Hospital admissions double once every eight days, and testing systems are also unstable.
The UK has now registered 394,257 positive cases, with 41,777 deaths, according to Worldometers data.
“Trends in the UK are going in the wrong direction and we are at a tipping point in the pandemic,” Chris Whitty, the government’s medical director, said in a briefing on Monday.
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