Coronavirus pandemic: More English cities face tightest COVID-19 lockdown rules
Britain announced wider coronavirus pandemic restrictions on Monday which will take the number of people under England`s highest category of alert to nearly 8 million, as the government battles a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases.
The number of new COVID cases has risen by almost a quarter over the past week to 153,483, and new COVID deaths were 50% higher than the week before at 1,272.