Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the three-tier national formula designed to “simplify and normalize” a confusing patch of local rules, as the country faces a “crucial phase” in which hospitals are now filling more patients with COVID-19 than in March, when it ordered a national closure.
“These numbers are flashing like warnings on the board of a jet plane, and we’re going to have to act now,” he said.
Shops, schools and universities would remain open in all areas. Johnson told lawmakers that the purpose of the new formula is to save lives and prevent hospitals from being beaten without “closing our lives and our society” through a new national closure.
But pubs, restaurants and other hotel corporations have retired, and some industry leaders threatened to defy regulations and claimed they are not guilty of infections.
After summer falls, coronavirus cases are spreading in the UK as winter approaches, and north-west and north-east England see the biggest increases. Liverpool is consistent with one of the most serious outbreaks in the country, with approximately six hundred cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, more than the most affected European cities in Madrid and Brussels.
According to the new measures, spaces in England are classified as medium, high or very high threat and are subject to varying severity restrictions.
Areas at the lowest point will adhere to existing national restrictions, adding curfew at 10 p. m. in pubs and restaurants and banning the collection of more than six people. In high-risk areas, members of other families can meet indoors.
The “very high” threat point will be subject to restrictions, adding pub closure – with the exception of those serving meals – and, if local government so desires, other places like gyms and casinos.
Liverpool, the only dominance at the most sensitive level on Monday, however, Johnson said the government was still in talks with other local leaders in northern England.
Liverpool’s pubs, gyms, recreation centres, department stores and casinos will close from Wednesday.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said the local government supported stricter restrictions as long as they were accompanied by advanced and tracking measures to eliminate infection groups, which he said the government had accepted.
“In addition to protecting lives and doing things to combat the virus, we also want to protect livelihoods, so we’ve been pushing for a more powerful monetary package,” said Anderson, a Labour member of the opposition. T listened. “
The government has announced a program to pay two-thirds of workers’ wages from corporations that are told to close, but many in the bar and restaurant sector say this is not enough to save companies that are already in trouble.
Labour leader Keir Starmer said he doubted that the new measures would go far enough to “control this virus, protect jobs, or public trust. “
The UK experienced Europe’s deadliest epidemic, with an official death toll of 42,875. Health officials say Britain is at a turning point in the epidemic, and strong action is needed to prevent hospitals from being hit at a time when they are already busier. flu and other winter diseases.
Stephen Powis, medical director of the National Health Service in England, said there have been more people hospitalized with the virus lately than when the country entered its national blockade in March.
He said 3 transitional COVID-19 hospitals in northern England were suspended when the outbreak receded during the summer are able to admit patients in the coming weeks.
England’s deputy medical director Jonathan Van-Tam said Monday that while northern England has the highest infection rates, instances are increasing across the country. Infections have a higher maximum in older teens and young adults, who sometimes suffer from Mild Symptoms have spread to older and higher-risk groups.
“It’s a phenomenon now, ” said Van-Tam.
The owners of bars and places to eat say that the government has not shared any evidence of the claim that they are the main sources of transmission of the virus.
Manchester City Council leader Richard Leese said the knowledge of the city’s public fitness officials “seems to show that there is no link between bars and restaurants and the transmission of COVID. “
But Calum Semple, professor of epidemic medicine at the University of Liverpool and a member of the government’s emergency science advisory organization, said that “most outbreaks occur in and between families and then in the retail and hotel industry. Array”
He said the new measures would take several weeks to the number of hospitalizations and deaths, if they were strong enough to make a difference.
“The epidemic is a bit like a super-oil tanker,” Semple told the BBC. “You put the brakes on, it takes a lot of time to see the effect. “
The measures announced Monday apply to England. The rest of the UK is subject to similar and stricter restrictions. In Scotland’s two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, pubs have been closed for 16 days to quell the epidemic.
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Danica Kirka contributed to this story.
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