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New anti-Covid squeeze in London, which is almost closed again since Wednesday The announcement reaches the municipalities of Matt hancock, Boris Johnson’s Minister of Health, formalizing the decision to react without delay to the local resumption of infections registered after the end of the one-month national lockdown on December 2.
The squeeze establishes that the capital will change from orange alert to red with new closing of restaurants, pubs and some shops. Limitations that will last for now until the 23rd, when throughout the Kingdom, including London, a relief from the 5-day restrictions will be activated on Christmas.
What does the return to the red zone imply? Very strict rules such as public and outdoor gatherings with a maximum of six people, maximum 15 guests at weddings.
Before explaining the decision to the House, Hancock met with the elected deputies in the London colleges separately, in order to explain the precautionary need for the repression, also extended since Wednesday also to the neighboring county of ‘ Hertfordshire: the one that includes the airport Luton and the homonymous town.
Starting at midnight on Wednesday morning, more areas will move to Level 3 restrictions.
I know this is difficult news, but this action is absolutely essential to help prevent more damaging and long-lasting problems down the road.
When the virus moves quickly, we must too. pic.twitter.com/QxKuwr9qs5
– Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) December 14, 2020
As of December 2, the British capital had been placed on the orange alert level (like most of England), the second most severe on the British scale of three (Tier 2), with limitations on social contacts and more limited business activities. . L ‘Red alert (OR Level 3) instead reflects a risk of infection defined by health authorities and the government as “very high” and implies local precautions close to those of a real closure.
The indication, now adopted by the Minister of Health of the Tory government of Boris Johnson, was not unexpected and was sanctioned today by a government committee, also made up of experts and scientists and called to review the situation in a territory by territory every two weeks . In the morning it was the Labor mayor of the metropolis on the Thames, Sadiq Khan, who anticipated the squeeze as a necessary and unavoidable precaution given the trend of contagions in recent days. Level 3 implies new general closures of restaurants, pubs and bars (except takeaway), hotels, some shops and stricter restrictions on movements: with inevitable consequences, especially in the run-up to Christmas, in sectors of the economy And trade. already hard hit by the effects of the pandemic. Although for now there is no mention of an early closure of schools in view of Christmas, invoked by Khan himself.
The mayor of the British capital Sadiq khan On his Twitter profile he talks about the catastrophic economic impact:
The economic impact of the government’s decision to introduce more restrictions in London will be catastrophic, with thousands of livelihoods at stake.
That is why I ask for a comprehensive compensation plan and financial support for companies. pic.twitter.com/moyQxizQz9
– Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) December 14, 2020
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