London will enter a tighter COVID-19 lockdown as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle a swiftly accelerating second coronavirus wave
London, Europe's top financial centre with 9 million people, will enter a tighter COVID-19 lockdown from midnight on Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle a swiftly accelerating second coronavirus wave.
"Things will get worse before they get better," Hancock said. "But I know that there are brighter skies and calmer seas ahead – that the ingenuity of science will find a way through and until then we must come together." President Emmanuel Macron announced night curfews for four weeks from Saturday in Paris and other major cities.In the capital, whose financial district is rivalled only by New York, 11 boroughs are seeing more than 100 new cases a week per 100,000 people. The worst hit areas are Richmond, Hackney, the City of London, Ealing, Redbridge and Harrow.
But opponents say his Conservative government was too slow to act when the virus first struck, failed to protect the elderly in care homes, and bungled the testing system.
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