According to BBC, the new legal limit will prohibit groups with more than six people to meet socially, indoors or outdoors.
However, the rule does not apply to organized schools, workplaces, weddings, funerals and team sports.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will release more details on Wednesday. “We need to act now to prevent the virus from spreading. Therefore, we are simplifying and strengthening the rules of social contact – making them easier to understand,” he said.
“It is absolutely essential that people now follow these rules and remember the basics: washing their hands, wearing a mask, keeping their distance from other people and taking a test if they have symptoms,” he said.
Boris Johnson also said that any group of seven or more people gathered anywhere “is in danger of being dispersed by the police or fined for non-compliance”. Those who violate the rule risk a fine of 110 euros, which could reach 3,527 euros.
The UK has registered an additional 2,420 new infections and 30 deaths of covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the British Ministry of Health reported, confirming a worsening of the epidemic situation in the country that is worrying the British authorities.
As of Monday, 2,948 new cases of covid-19 and three more deaths had been registered.
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