Coronavirus: three government proposals for tightening lockdown

Michael Gove leading ‘Covid-O’ committee tasked with reviewing restrictions as infections soar across UK

People walk past the social distancing markings on the ground at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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Boris Johnson’s top Covid team are calling for tighter lockdown rules amid warnings that the current restrictions are not being followed strictly enough.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove chaired an emergency meeting on Sunday of the cabinet’s “Covid-O” sub-committee where various “ideas were discussed” for the potential crackdown, Politico London Playbook’s Alex Wickham reports. Hours later, Boris Johnson met with cabinet colleagues to talk about whether the current lockdown rules were working to reduce spiralling Covid cases at a sufficient rate.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.