Gradually lifting the restrictions imposed on koronawirusa office premiere Boris Johnson stipulated that if the disease increases again, all steps may be undone, and if there is a particularly high number of infections in any area, it may introduce local locks, although it was not specified what they would look like.
Information that government is considering placing such a block Leicester, he was the first to give the Sunday Times. According to this newspaper, Health Minister Matt Hancock is looking at the legal aspects of such actions. These reports were later confirmed by Interior Minister Priti Patel.
Ministry health admitted on Sunday that Leicester is an area of concern and called on residents to exercise extreme caution.
Meditation by government such a local blockade in Leicester is associated with a large number of new infections in this city. According to data from June 16, 2494 cases of coronavirus have been detected in Leicester since the outbreak, of which as many as 658 – more than 26 percent. – during the first two weeks of June. Meanwhile, throughout the country, the number of new infections is clearly decreasing this month.
An additional factor of concern is ethnic structure. Of all the major cities in the United Kingdom, Leicester has the highest proportion of ethnic minority populations, including particularly large ones of South Asian origin, and is a group that, according to statistics, is more likely to die from coronavirus infection. A large proportion of infections occur in the eastern part of the city, where there are large clusters of people of South Asian origin.
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