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Second wave of coronavirus 'is coming to UK', Boris Johnson warns

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has admitted the UK is ‘now seeing a second wave coming in’ and that it was ‘inevitable’ coronavirus would hit the country again.The prime minister said a second national lockdown was the ‘last thing anybody wants’ but that it could not be ruled out if current measures don’t bring the virus down.Around 10 million people are living under tighter restrictions in the UK after the North East, Merseyside and Lancashire were put on lockdown this week. Measures to contain the virus are already in place in parts of the Midlands, Greater Manchester, south Wales and Scotland.Mr Johnson said his administration was considering whether it needed to ‘go further’ than the current crackdowns.‘We are now seeing a second wave coming in…It is absolutely, I’m afraid, inevitable, that we will see it in this country,’ he told reporters during a visit to Oxfordshire.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatMinisters are reportedly mulling over plans to enforce a two-week national lockdown if the ban on social gatherings of more than six does not bring the virus down.Asked about the possibility of a short term shutdown, Mr Johnson said schools would remain open but other restrictions might be necessary.He said: ‘What I can certainly say about parents and schools is we want to keep the schools open, that is going to happen.‘We want to try and keep all parts of the economy open as far as we possibly can – I don’t think anybody wants to go into a second lockdown but clearly when you look at what is happening, you have got to wonder whether we need to go further than the ‘rule of six’ that we have brought in on Monday, so we will be looking at the local lockdowns we have got in large parts of the country now, looking at what we can do to intensify things that help bring the rate of infection down there, but also looking at other measures as well.’The number of daily coronavirus infections have risen to their highest level since May, while hospital admissions are also starting to rise again.Asked if the government had eased lockdown too quickly, Mr Johnson suggested discipline in adhering to social distancing restrictions had slipped.He said: ‘If you look at what’s happened over the last few months, I think the British people have done a amazing job.‘They got that peak under control, they brought it right down, they brought the number of infections right down by discipline and everybody adjusting our behaviours and the way we go about our lives – hands, face, space.‘And I think probably, truth to tell, what’s happened here and what alas has happened in so many other countries is that people find it difficult to keep this up.‘It is very difficult to maintain that kind of discipline for a long time and what you’ve seen is the disease starting to spread again among young people and that’s where it really started to kick off in France and Spain in those age groups and we are now seeing that here in this country.’Scientists have warned that although young people don’t tend to get seriously ill from catching the virus, they risk spreading it to their older, more vulnerable relatives.Mr Johnson said there was now an increase in over-80s testing positive, citing this as one of the reasons the ‘rule of six’ was brought in.He said if this doesn’t work then ‘of course we are going to have to take further measures’.However he suggested a second national lockdown would not be as severe as the first.‘What I don’t want to do is go into a second national lockdown of the kind we had in March, April – I don’t want to do that again,’ he said.The PM said it was ‘crucial’ that people observe the basic rules on social distancing, citing his ‘hands, face, space’ campaign.‘That is what everybody has got to do if we want to continue to beat this thing.‘But as we look at this particular curve and what is happening now, clearly we are going to keep everything under review. I don’t want to get into a second national lockdown at all, it is the last thing anybody wants.‘I don’t want to go into bigger lockdown measures at all, we want to keep schools open and it is fantastic the schools have gone back in the way they have. We want to keep the economy open as far as we possibly can, we want to keep businesses going‘The only way we can do that is obviously if people follow the guidance.’Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at .For more stories like this, .Not convinced?Get us in your feed

has admitted the UK is ‘now seeing a second wave coming in’ and that it was ‘inevitable’ coronavirus would hit the country again.The prime minister said a second national lockdown was the ‘last thing anybody wants’ but that it could not be ruled out if current measures don’t bring the virus down.Around 10 million people are living under tighter restrictions in the UK after the North East, Merseyside and Lancashire were put on lockdown this week. Measures to contain the virus are already in place in parts of the Midlands, Greater Manchester, south Wales and Scotland.Mr Johnson said his...

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