Liverpool City Region to go into lockdown after talks with government
(Reuters) – Liverpool City Region will go into the strictest “third tier” of new anti-coronavirus restrictions to be announced imminently by Britain, its leaders said late on Sunday after talks with the British government.
The government has decided that further measures and closures will apply to Liverpool City Region, its leaders, including Mayor Steve Rotheram, said in a joint statement.
“Pubs and bars; betting shops, casinos and adult gaming centres and gyms will close,” the statement added.
The leaders said the furlough scheme announced recently by Finance Minister Rishi Sunak was inadequate.
“Businesses in the region especially those in the hospitality sector and those serving it will be damaged and many will suffer long term damage or close for good”, they said.
The statement added that the leaders have agreed with the government to remain in dialogue to establish a “mutually agreeable” financial support package to mitigate the impact of
Government announces new coronavirus lockdown rules
Parliamentlive.tvBoris Johnson made the announcement in the House of Commons earlier today
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new strategy for dealing with Covid-19 in different parts of England.
The new system places different areas in England into three tiers – areas with more cases will face further rules.
The new rules come into effect from Wednesday, with places like Liverpool and nearby areas facing the biggest changes to reduce the risk of catching the virus.
For the people living there, they won’t be allowed to mix with anyone from another household indoors or outdoors.
Leisure centres, pubs and bars have been told to close in the region.
Why is this happening?
Getty ImagesThe coronavirus infection rate is increasing at different rates in different parts of the UK.
Liverpool and surrounding areas have the some of the highest infection rates of coronavirus. Liverpool recorded 600 cases per
Three-tier lockdown in England could last until ‘after Christmas’
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England’s incoming three-tier lockdown could last until after Christmas, a government minister has said.
Prime minister Boris Johnson is set to announce the new coronavirus restrictions for England on Monday.
He will give a speech to MPs in the House of Commons later this afternoon before addressing the nation about the changes this evening, amid questions over whether the plan can drive down infections.
On Monday, culture secretary Oliver Dowden warned the new restrictions may be needed until into the new year.
“If those measures are successful we hope to be able to take areas out of those high levels of restrictions,” he told Sky News.
“The purpose of doing this is to ensure we get the virus under control so by the
A declaration of our Covid lockdown rights for society as a whole
The overwhelming majority of Covid-related deaths, the evidence shows, are among those over 70 with other pre-existing conditions. Recorded cases are up in recent weeks – but we’re doing a quarter of a million tests daily, compared to just 20,000 during the April pandemic peak. Covid-related hospitalisation and deaths still remain low, with total fatalities from respiratory conditions, and deaths overall, similar to any normal year.
The GBD authors insist this is not a political exercise. “Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we’ve devoted our careers to protecting people,” they write. “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health”.
Gupta and her co-authors boast decades at the pinnacle of global science. Imposing lockdown measures across all age groups is having terrible health implications, they say – not least as the NHS has significantly restricted non-Covid treatments. We’re seeing “worsening cardiovascular
Liverpool leaders say city to go into lockdown after talks with government
(Reuters) – The city of Liverpool will go into the strictest “third tier” of new anti-coronavirus restrictions to be announced imminently by Britain, its leaders said late on Sunday after talks with the British government.
The government has decided that further measures and closures will apply to Liverpool, the city’s leaders, including Mayor Steve Rotheram, said in a joint statement.
“Pubs and bars; betting shops, casinos and adult gaming centres and gyms will close,” the statement added bit.ly/3iRyMrG.
Liverpool’s leaders said the furlough scheme announced recently by Finance Minister Rishi Sunak was inadequate.
“Businesses in the region especially those in the hospitality sector and those serving it will be damaged and many will suffer long term damage or close
Lockdown Enthusiasts’ Risk Aversion Is Producing a More Unequal Society
Now that Donald Trump exited from Walter Reed Hospital and the vice presidential debate aired, let’s turn to an apolitical analyst to understand what’s happening. Vaclav Smil, 76, native of communist Czechoslovakia and former University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology and demography. “Nobody,” says Bill Gates, who has read every book, “sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil.”
What Smil sees now, he writes in a characteristically terse IEEE Spectrum essay, he finds puzzling. The COVID-19 death rate per million is about one-fifth that of the 1957-58 Asian flu and one-third that of the 1968-70 Hong Kong flu. Yet these earlier pandemics had only “evanescent economic consequences” and did not “leave any deep, traumatic traces in memories” of the 350 million people who, like Smil (and me), were 10 or older during both. “Countries did not resort
Lockdown backers’ risk aversion is producing a more unequal society | American Enterprise Institute
In between Donald Trump’s exit from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the vice-presidential debate, let’s turn to an apolitical analyst to understand what’s happening. Vaclav Smil, 76, native of communist Czechoslovakia, University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology, and demography. “Nobody,” says Bill Gates, who has read every one, “sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil.”
What he sees now, he writes in a characteristically terse IEEE Spectrum essay, he finds puzzling. The COVID-19 death rate per million is about one-fifth that of the 1957-58 Asian flu and one-third of the 1968-70 Hong Kong flu. Yet these earlier pandemics had only “evanescent economic consequences” and did not “leave any deep traumatic traces in memories” of the 350 million people who, like Smil (and me), were 10 or older during both. “Countries did not resort to any
Lockdown backers’ risk aversion is producing a more unequal society
In between Donald Trump’s exit from Walter Reed Hospital and the vice-presidential debate, let’s turn to an apolitical analyst to understand what’s happening. Vaclav Smil, 76, native of in Communist Czechoslovakia, University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology and demography. “Nobody,” says Bill Gates, who has read every one, “sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil.”
What he sees now, he writes in a characteristically terse IEEE Spectrum essay, he finds puzzling. The COVID-19 death rate per million is about one-fifth that of the 1957-58 Asian flu and one-third of the 1968-70 Hong Kong flu. Yet these earlier pandemics had only “evanescent economic consequences” and did not “leave any deep traumatic traces in memories” of the 350 million people who, like Smil (and me), were 10 or older during both. “Countries did not resort to any mass-scale economic
Irish government clashes with scientists over national lockdown
Ireland’s government has clashed with top scientific advisers after rejecting their call for a new national lockdown to tackle surging coronavirus infections.
The request on Sunday night to place the entire country under the most severe restrictions came only three days after public health officials said there was no need for new national measures.
The weekend move blindsided Micheál Martin’s government, provoking an angry response from ministers. Another comprehensive lockdown would shut large parts of an economy that is still struggling after the spring shutdown in which 600,000 jobs were lost.
After fraught talks with health officials and an emergency cabinet meeting, the prime minister gave a televised speech on Monday night to impose new hospitality sector restrictions that stopped well short of a national lockdown. Police overtime has also been increased to step up enforcement of the current restrictions.
The decision to defy health advice is the first big
Irish government rejects return to full coronavirus lockdown
The Irish government has rejected a recommendation to return the country to a full lockdown in the first clash with health chiefs since the Covid outbreak began.
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The surprise recommendation by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) late on Sunday to impose the highest of five levels of restrictions possible with immediate effect had led to sharp criticism from some of the country’s most senior politicians, including the former taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
While the rising spread of the virus is causing alarm and has led to partial lockdowns in several counties, most of the country is still on level 2 restrictions, involving fewer limits to social and economic activity.
Ministers faced opposition from politicians and business to what would have amounted to Europe’s first major second-wave national lockdown.
On Monday night, the cabinet opted to move the country to level