This could be the model for future local lockdowns in the UK 👇
Leicester’s mayor has said the current lockdown restrictions could stay in place for another two weeks past July 4.
She told the BBC: ‘There will be support going into Leicester and in fact the Health Secretary was in touch with many of us over the weekend explaining some of the measures, the support on testing, resources that will go into the local authority as well.
‘If it is decided that a local lockdown is needed the city council currently has no powers to implement this, and there would need to be extensive discussion around the area to be locked down, including whether this extends beyond the city boundaries.’ Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow health secretary and Leicester South MP, said the Home Secretary had ‘got slightly in a muddle’ in her comments about a possible local lockdown.
It said information covering ethnicity and the postcodes of those being tested had not previously been provided.
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