United Kingdom 'Covid' party at the University of Manchester with the requirement to be positive
Scotland.Nicola Sturgeon bans the sale of alcohol inside pubs for 16 days
Pandemic. Johnson vows to harness the coronavirus crisis as a "catalyst for change"
The 'premier' Boris Johnson faces a
rebellion in the municipalities of the "red belt" of the north of England
by the local confinements imposed in the last weeks before the pandemic and that already affect more than
10 million British
.
Alarms have gone off again in the meantime with the
17,540 cases registered on Thursday
, 3,000 days more than the day before, confirming the stern warning from the government's scientific advisers: infections are doubling every week.
The Labor Mayor of
Manchester
, Andy Burham, is leading the protests by local authorities over the economic impact that partial closures are having in his metropolitan area, considered today as the epicenter of the second wave of Covid-19, with more than
500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
.
From
Liverpool
to
Newcastle
, local authorities are questioning the measures taken by the Government in recent weeks that
disproportionately affect the most economically disadvantaged areas
, the same ones that abandoned their historical tendency to vote Labor and gave Johnson his victory electoral by absolute majority last December.
A recent study has shown that in 19 out of 20 areas affected by local
lockdowns, infection rates have continued to rise despite restrictions
.
The municipalities affected have demanded from the Secretary of the Treasury Rishi Sunak a
specific program of economic aid to the north of England
to compensate for the measures.
Boris Johnson is expected to travel to Manchester and Liverpool next week to explain 'in situ' his new strategy with
a system of traffic lights (green, amber, red) to regulate local confinements
and end the current confusion.
Johnson is also resisting the pressure of a hundred 'Tory' deputies who have questioned the effectiveness of the restrictions and who
want to force a parliamentary vote to eliminate the early closing of pubs and restaurants
at 10 at night.
Health Secretary
Matt Hancock
has hinted, however, that England could follow the same path as Scotland, which has banned the serving of alcohol in closed establishments for 16 days (only possible in street service pubs and restaurants) .
The Johnson Government medical adviser, Chris Whitty, has meanwhile defended the latest measures claiming that
pubs and restaurants are responsible "for more than 30% of infections in people under 30 years
.
"
Chris Whitty and science advisor Patrick Vallance have been renamed "the prophets of the apocalypse" by conservative newspapers
The Daily Mail
and
The Daily Telegraph
, highlighting
growing divisions among scientists and within the Johnson government itself
over the effectiveness of the measures. in the face of the pandemic, which has claimed 42,592 deaths to date, 77 of them in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, experts from the Scientific Advisory Group (SAGE) have warned that
British hospitals could enter a "critical situation" in ten days
if the current trend persists.
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