Boris Johnson declares England’s second stay-at-home lockdown from 5 November for four weeks
FirstpostJohnson said that unless tough action is taken now the peak of mortality in the country could be even greater than the first wave triggering a ‘medical and moral disaster’ London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a second stay-at-home lockdown across England, starting from next Thursday and to run for four weeks until at least the start of December, in order to deal with the rapidly increasing coronavirus infections. Addressing a briefing from 10 Downing Street on Saturday, Johnson said there was no choice but to be “humble in the face of nature" and unless tough action is taken now the peak of mortality in the country could be even greater than the first wave triggering a “medical and moral disaster”. “You must stay at home, you must only leave home for education, work if you cannot work from home, recreational exercise with one person from another household or your household, and to escape injury or harm, to shop for food and essentials or provide care for vulnerable people as a volunteer,” he said, adding that this lockdown would be less “restrictive” than the first lockdown of earlier this year. “We could have saved more of the economy and reduced the impact of [lockdown> with a shorter, earlier circuit-breaker that coincided with half term,” said Labour’s shadow business minister Lucy Powell.