“Not acting would be unforgivable,” the prime minister told MPs earlier, suggesting that more spaces can move on to stricter point 3.
Wigan’s Labour MP (and Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy think she might have been excluded from a briefing for Greater Manchester MPs because officials didn’t know where her constituency was.
UPDATE: From my colleague Helen Pidd
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has called on the Welsh government to take immediate action to prohibit others from travelling to spaces with major infections in England in Wales.
Welsh ministers said they were disappointed that Boris Johnson had not prevented others from leaving Covid-19 hotspots and were his next steps.
I’d be more than disappointed, I’m livid with the prime minister.
Previously, Mark Drakeford [the Prime Minister of Wales] said there is no evidence of this type of infection in other people crossing the border.
Now, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has told us for the first time that there is genuine evidence of transmission that has happened from other people from highly infected spaces from England to Wales.
We are beyond the point of “consideration”: the Government of Wales will have to act today.
Visits to nursing homes in Scotland will continue indoors and, in some cases, will be allowed to shake hands with personal protective equipment, Scottish government health secretary Jeane Freeman said at the Scottish government briefing. welcome through relatives who have been pushing for them to relax in recent months.
As we reported last week, concerned parents shared heartbreaking stories of separation from their loved ones, i. e. the consequences of prolonged isolation for others with dementia, which depended on visitor stimulation.
At his previous press conference, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s leading medical assistant medical director, said coronavirus cases were higher in the north of England now because they were higher there than in the south of England when England arrived here. this summer’s lockout . . . (See 11:44 am) Responding to a reporter, Van-Tam said:
I have been concerned now that I have just presented a bipolar image that Covid-19 is a challenge in the north and a challenge in the south.
On the contrary, the epidemic has obviously accelerated this time in the north of England earlier than in the first wave and this is almost similar to the fact that the degrees of disease in the north and north-west have never dropped so much in the summer as in the south.
Andy Burnham, who said at the time that the closing measures were quiet too soon, took this as a justification.
Nick Forbes, the Labour mayor of Newcastle City Hall, posted a twitter thread on the qualification of north-east England at level 2, and was saved from the most restrictive blockades at level 3. (See 1:13 p. m. ) It’s here.
Here’s the Department of Education’s full announcement on GCSE and A in England delayed next summer to give more time for recovery education (see 12:57 p. m. )
One man was fined 10,000 euros after police discovered 80 visitors at a wedding party, PA Media reports. Essex police said police had obtained data on the giant rally at Ariana Gardens in Margaretting around 4. 15pm on Sunday. as “the ultimate magical and charming place for weddings in Essex”. When officials arrived, they discovered that about 80 visitors were having dinner. Essex Deputy Chief of Police Andy Prophet said:
This wedding party is a flagrant violation of existing restrictions that allow only 15 other people to attend a wedding.
Boris Johnson will announce a 28 million pound program for spaces subject to the strictest coronavirus restrictions, Merseyside MPs have reported.
This will come with 14 million pounds for other clinically vulnerable people and to assist in compliance measures, and an additional 14 million pounds for local tracking and testing systems.
It is also understood that “food pubs” may remain open in spaces subject to the strictest restrictions, while bars and pubs that do serve very abundant food will have to close.
Most likely this will lead to significant confusion given the large number of pubs serving food, such as Wetherspoons stalls, which seem to be allowed to remain open under the new rules.
MEPs were informed that they would vote on the possibility of extending the measures every 4 weeks.
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