(LONDON) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday suspended some planned measures to ease the UK blockade, just hours before they came into force, and said the number of new coronavirus cases in the country is increasing for the first time. weather since May.
Johnson said at a news convention that statistics show that the prevalence of COVID-19 on the network is likely to increase, with around 4900 new infections each day, up from 2000 a day by the end of June.
“We can’t forget this evidence,” he said.
“With those numbers on the rise, our assessment is that we now press (the) brake pedal to keep the virus under control.”
He has canceled plans to allow venues, adding casinos, bowling alleys and ice rinks, to open theaters on saturday, August 1.
Mr. Johnson, the measures would be reviewed after two weeks.
He said a rule requiring the use of masks on and on public transport will extend to museums, galleries, cinemas and places of worship.
Scientists advising the government say they are no longer convinced that the R figure, which measures the number of other people to which an inflamed user transmits the disease, is less than 1 in England. A number greater than 1 means that the virus is spreading exponentially.
On Thursday, the government again imposed restrictions on social life on a component of northern England due to an increase in the number of cases, which prevented families from visiting others.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that if it’s not the “kind of resolution it should take,” the government has no choice.
Under the new restrictions, other people from other families in Greater Manchester, the largest metropolitan domain of the moment in England, were asked not to gather indoors. The ordinance also applies to the surrounding areas of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and affects more than four million people in total.
Hancock said knowledge shows that coronavirus spreads mainly between households.
He told the BBC that “one of the horrible things about this virus is that it develops in the kind of social contact that makes life alive.”
Opposition politicians subsidized the most recent move, but criticized the government for pronouncing restrictions on a Hancock tweet Thursday night, just two hours before they came into effect at midnight.
Labor Affairs spokeswoman Lucy Powell said the “love at first sight” technique was not “the way to build, accept as true and take others with you and maximize compliance with those measures.”
The affected domain has a giant Muslim population, and the restrictions coincide with the feast of Eid al-Adha, where many others accumulate in the homes of others.
Britain’s Muslim Council general Harun Khan harshly criticized the way the announcement was made, saying that for Muslims in the affected areas, “it’s like being told they can’t stop in their circle of family and friends for Christmas.” Eva herself.
Northern England’s measures are the time when regional restrictions are imposed in an attempt to curb a momentary wave of the virus in Britain, following a stricter local closure in the city of Leicester in central England. The government said Leicester’s restaurants, pubs and hairdressers could reopen from Monday, more than a month after they closed due to a build-up of cases.
The official number of coronavirus deaths in Britain is just over 46,000, the third overall worldwide after the United States and Brazil.