by TopCat CCFC » Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:03 pm
Coronavirus: Home visits banned in parts of northern England
Separate households will not be allowed to meet indoors in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight, the government has announced.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said an "increasing rate of transmission" had been identified in those areas.
"The spread is largely due to households meeting and not abiding to social distancing," he said.
He also said the same restrictions will apply to the city of Leicester.
But pubs, restaurants and some other facilities are to be allowed to reopen from Monday in Leicester - where a local lockdown has been in place since last month - sources have told the BBC.
Millions of people in Greater Manchester, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale, Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees will be affected by the tightening of restrictions.
It is unclear whether the rules will also apply to pubs, restaurants, private gardens and places of worship.
On Thursday, a further 38 people in the UK died, bringing the total number of Covid-19 associated deaths to 45,999.
And 846 cases were reported - the highest number of cases in a day for a month.