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MORE than 21 million Britons will be subject to stricter lockdown rules in a few weeks.
A third of the country faces the highest Level 3 restrictions or “circuit breaker” closures.
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Today, three million people in Wales were told that they will be under a two-week “firewall” starting Friday night.
And Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned that swaths of South and West Yorkshire, including Sheffield and Leeds, could be placed at Level 3 this week.
Parts of the northeast and Nottinghamshire were put on a similar calendar.
Manchester could be forced to enter Level 3 on Friday after talks with the government broke down.
The movements would mean that another 13.1 million people would be affected in a few days.
That is in addition to the 2.7 million already at Level 3 in Merseyside and Lancashire, along with 3.4 million people in Scotland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, an emergency cabinet meeting in Dublin decided on a full six-week national shutdown from Wednesday night across the Republic of Ireland until December 1.
The schools will remain open and construction will be allowed to continue, and elite sports such as horse racing and Gaelic football were reported to be taking place.
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Tonight Downing Street insisted that it would persist with a localized approach.
A Boris Johnson spokesperson said: “We keep all of our measures under review, but the prime minister has made it very clear that he does not want a return to something like a national lockdown and believes that our three-tier approach is the right way forward. ”
Hancock told MPs: “Following the introduction of measures in Liverpool and Lancashire, talks are continuing with Greater Manchester, and further talks with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, the North East and Teesside are planned this week.”
A Whitehall source also said talks about a Level 3 shutdown of Sheffield and South Yorkshire were “relatively advanced”.
WALES CLOSURE
Welsh Prime Minister Mark Drakeford announced a return to March lockdown rules from Friday to November 8.
All non-essential pubs, restaurants, bars and shops will close from 6:00 p.m.
After mid-term, secondary schools will be closed for an additional week for Year 9 and above.
Drakeford said the lockdown would be a “short, sharp blow to turn back the clock, slow down the virus and give us more time.” But angry Conservative MPs have accused him of “great prestige.”
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The data showed that England had an average coronavirus infection rate of 166 per 100,000 people in the week through October 14, while Wales had a rate of 163 per 100,000.
In Liverpool and Manchester, the figure has been more than 500 per 100,000.
Paul Davies, Conservative leader in the Welsh Assembly, warned: “This is not a two-week recess to resolve the pandemic. We are likely to see regular lockdowns for the rest of the year. “
Talks between the government and Greater Manchester’s Labor Mayor Andy Burnham on placing the city on Level 3 failed despite a £ 100 million rescue offer and predictions that its intensive care beds could be overwhelmed by November 12.
According to government forecasts, Manchester’s second wave will be higher than its first peak.
A government spokesman said: “We are carefully considering the next steps.”
Tonight, Mr Burnham seemed increasingly isolated as it emerged that the Labor Mayor of the Sheffield City region, Dan Jarvis, is willing to agree to enter Level 3.
Under Level 3 rules, people are prohibited from mingling with other households inside or outside.
The sun says
How brave the Labor leader in Wales has been in offering his people house arrest, unemployment and ruin to test the scientifically dubious theory that a new lockdown can delay Covid for 28 days.
We cautioned Mark Drakeford that, according to his London bosses, this grim fortnight that he calls a “firewall” will only work if it is extended and then repeated on and off indefinitely.
We hope you’ve also read the fine print of the advice you’re following, in which Sage said the evidence that more time-locks would delay the virus was “generally weak,” but that they “can’t wait for better-quality evidence.”
What a backup!
Our condolences to Wales. We hope Boris Johnson will continue to resist siren calls for a national shutdown, destroying businesses in, say, the Isle of Wight from infections in the north, and driving the final nail into the coffin of our economy.
Of course, it is much easier for the leaders of Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland to impose such measures. The grant money will continue to come out of the Treasury.
But if England follows suit, shedding many more jobs and tax revenue with them, that funding will have to be cut.
One of the ironies of this terrible year is that those likely to walk away from the long-term financial calamity of the lockdowns they support are also more likely to cry bitter tears over the small temporary wobbles of a no-deal Brexit.
It is also strange that those clamoring for new difficulties in saving all possible lives from Covid ignore the epidemic of additional cancer and cardiac deaths, as sick people stay home and avoid the NHS.
But coherence seems lacking.
Take, for example, the shape-shifting Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, who before agreeing to a Level 3 lockdown demanded money for workers, then turned his nose at £ 100 million and said the rising infections were exaggerated anyway .
We don’t even disagree with him. But today we are on the lookout for whatever position you choose to fill on a Tuesday.
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RUN OF THE CLOCK
Manchester must close a Level 3 deal at NOON or will be forced to close
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Ireland is in a total lockdown and people must stay within 3 miles of their home
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Pubs and bars should be closed unless serving a main meal, while traveling outside the area is discouraged.
Meanwhile, furious Tory and Labor MPs are demanding government cash for areas that have moved from Tier 1 to Tier 2.
They said it is unfair for these regions to be slapped with new restrictions without any help to pubs and restaurants in distress.
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