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Boris Johnson will announce that pubs and restaurants in Manchester and across the north must close to address a second wave of coronavirus cases, it has been reported.
The prime minister is said to make the announcement on Monday.
As coronavirus cases skyrocket in many parts of the north, the government is said to be poised to tighten restrictions for some 10 million people in the north of England.
The Times reports that the prime minister will challenge a growing rebellion, some of them his own MPs, and will order that pubs and restaurants must close in Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle.
It says the prime minister has signed the lockdown tonight, along with new financial support measures and a “simplified system of restrictions in England.”
The newspaper says Johnson is believed to have planned to announce the new restrictions today, but was delayed by “cabinet divisions.”
It comes after Scotland announced that it will be closing pubs and restaurants in central locations for at least two weeks.
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Manchester held the unwanted title of the highest infection rate on earth before being overtaken by Liverpool and Knowsley.
The number of cases is increasing across Greater Manchester and, nationally, the number of daily deaths is also starting to rise.
The government said that, as of 9am Wednesday, there had been 14,162 more laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK. It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 544,275.
The government also said that another 70 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday. This brings the UK total to 42,515.
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Manchester Township recorded 541.6 positive tests per 100,000 local population during the week ending October 4, according to the latest figures from Public Health England (PHE).
Some 2,994 positive tests were recorded in Manchester over the seven days, a 76 percent increase compared to the previous week.
It suggests that the increase in cases is still marked, but has slowed: it had doubled every week.
The number of infections has doubled in a week in Stockport.
Stockport and seven other boroughs saw their infection rates rise, although they are still about half the figure in Manchester, which has a large student population.
Only Bolton, which has been subject to local lockdown restrictions for a longer period, has halted the sharp increases seen elsewhere, registering 255.3 people with coronavirus during the week in question for every 100,000 in the area.
Bolton saw 734 positive cases in the week through October 4, a small increase of just 32 compared to the previous week.
Like Manchester, the other boroughs have seen their infection rate rise: Rochdale, 324.6; Salford 304.8; Bury, 281.7; Oldham, 278.8; Trafford, 259.1; Wigan, 257.1; Tameside, 239.7; Stockport, 215.1.
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Stockport’s alarming increase in cases continues, with 631 positive tests recorded in seven days.
It represents an increase of 97 percent.
Figures suggest the disease was spreading faster in Stockport than anywhere else in Greater Manchester last week.
Trafford saw an 85 percent increase in cases, registering 615 cases.
Rochdale recorded 722 cases during the week, a 60 percent increase compared to the previous week.
There were 789 cases in Salford, an increase of 56 percent, while the cases in Tameside increased 37 percent to 543.
Greater Manchester overall recorded 9,072 cases, an increase of 38 percent.
All ten districts remain in the ‘red zone’ where PHE requires local intervention.
The average infection rate in England was 117.4.
Although the number of cases is skyrocketing in much of the country, there is far more evidence now than at the height of the first wave of the pandemic in April and May.
So, only people were tested in hospitals.
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