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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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