COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Matt Hancock said that the action being taken is “absolutely essential”.

He told MPs: “I know that this is difficult news and I know that it will mean plans disrupted and that for businesses affected, it will be a significant blow, but this action is absolutely essential not just to keep people safe, but because we’ve seen early action can prevent more damaging and longer lasting problems later.

“These restrictions will come into force at midnight on Wednesday morning because when the virus moves quickly, we must move quickly too and we must take the actions that are not necessarily easy but are effective.

“We’ll continue to stand with those who are most impacted through our furlough scheme and support for the self-employed, we’ve already begun to surge mobile testing into these parts of London, Essex and Kent and we’re extending community testing too.

“In addition, I can tell the House that this weekend as part of our expansion of community testing, we’re extending it to 67 local authorities across England and further today we’ll be publishing a guide for colleagues to promote, support and champion local community testing and contact tracing
 
He told the Commons: “We’ve therefore decided to move Greater London, the South and West of Essex, which includes Basildon, Brentwood, Harlow, Epping Forest, Castle Point, Rochford, Maldon, Braintree and Chelmsford, along with Thurrock and Southend-On-Sea borough councils and the south of Hertfordshire which means Broxbourne, Hertsmere, Watford and the Three Rivers local authority into Tier 3 which is the very high alert level.

“This means that people can only see friends and family they don’t live with or are in a support bubble with in outdoor public places and of course in line with the rule of six.

“Hospitality settings must close except takeaway and delivery and people should avoid travelling outside their area and reduce the number of journeys they make wherever possible
 
I have been very critical to date of the Government and its handling of this whole sorry saga, at least they are doing the right thing in putting London into Tier 3. I personally hope the also keep us there for at least another week.

Struggling still with the opening of restrictions over Xmas though.
 
MPs on the call with Health Secretary Matt Hancock have said the next review will be on 23 December. Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton Rupa Huq says the MPs were told reviews will be weekly from now on.
 
Matt Hancock said: “I must stress at this point that there is currently nothing to suggest that this variant is more likely to cause serious disease and the latest clinical advice is that it’s highly unlikely that this mutation would fail to respond to a vaccine, but it shows we’ve got to be vigilant and follow the rules and everyone needs to take personal responsibility not to spread this virus.”

He added: “I need to tell the House that over the last week, we’ve seen very sharp, exponential rises in the virus across London, Kent, parts of Essex and Hertfordshire.

“We do not know the extent to which this is because of the new variant but no matter its cause we have to take swift and decisive action which unfortunately is absolutely essential to control this deadly disease while the vaccine is rolled out

“Similar variants have been identified in other countries in recent months.

“We have identified over 1,000 cases of new variant.

“We must act now
 
Matt Hancock said the numbers of the new variant of coronavirus “are increasing rapidly”.

He told the Commons: “Initial analysis suggests that this variant is growing faster than the existing variants.

“We’ve currently identified over 1,000 cases with this variant predominantly in the South of England although cases have been identified in nearly 60 different local authority areas.

“And numbers are increasing rapidly

It is understood that there is nothing to suggest the new strain is resistant to vaccines or any more deadly but it’s easier to transmit from person to person
 
FantasyIreland said:
Cancel Christmas you fucking loons.
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I have got everything in for xmas and will be hunkering down with the wife watching netflix and other TV stuff, it's going to be a shut-in and that's without government advice.

We could be near the final push bud all we have to do is keep a lid on it.
 
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