According to leaked Government documents seen by The Guardian, the draft 'Covid-19 Proposed Social Distancing Framework' plan is designed to simplify the existing localised restrictions. Britain gradually came out of a national lockdown over the summer, but many areas including major cities such as Manchester and Glasgow are currently subject to local restrictions. In an interview on Sunday, Boris Johnson denied a suggestion that the local restrictions were not working given infection rates were still rising in the affected areas and there was no end in sight to the measures. Regions with less tough measures would be placed in tier two, and the rest of the country not under local lockdown placed as tier three. It comes as Public Health England (PHE) admitted it missed out counting 15,481 positive coronavirus cases going back to September 25.

Source: Daily Mirror October 05, 2020 00:09 UTC