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However, infections in the UK are growing, now around 5,000 a day. And since the premiere Boris johnson has already reiterated several times that it does not want at all a new lockdown like last spring, because it would bring the British economy to its knees on the eve of Brexit on December 31, today new restrictions were approved for the citizens of most of the countries. Northeast England and “Midlands”, to limit new infections. There is talk of more than 2 million citizens affected by these new rules (of 66 in the United Kingdom) in addition to 6.5 million in other areas of the country already in recent weeks at the local level and another 1.5 million in Scotland that already they had received similar alerts in recent days. In total: about ten million.
Many cities and areas are involved such as Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Gateshead, Leicester, Glasgow and Sunderland. The new restrictions are mainly based on limiting contacts with other households, both inside and outside the home, excluding so-called “support bubbles”, that is, contacts with one or two external households chosen in advance (areas).
In short, an even greater restriction than the so-called “rule of six”, imposed at the national level at the beginning of the week, which imposes on any person the limit of not being able to gather more than five people at the same time, at home or away. In addition, pubs and restaurants must close, in the affected areas, between 10 and 11 at night and will not be able to reopen before 5 in the morning. However, there are several exceptions: from business meetings to offices to schools, as mentioned, the reopening of which is crucial for Johnson.