Is your city at risk of a Leicester-style ‘local lockdown’?

London boroughs and Doncaster among areas with rising infection rates

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Health experts expect the UK to have ‘a number of Leicesters’
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Leicester is the first UK city to be placed under local lockdown, with schools and shops re-closing in a bid to suppress a surge in coronavirus cases.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons on Monday night that “the growing outbreak in Leicester” meant the government “cannot recommend that the easing of the national lockdown” takes place in the city.

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