Residents have been advised to stay at home and warned against all but essential travel following a spike of 800-plus Covid-19 cases in Leicester since mid-June. But Leicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said the new lockdown in the city should have been brought in much sooner. 'I don't know how it would work but they have to implement a local lockdown. 'Locking down at the regional level would be seen as unfair or worse as Leicester City has really very little to do with rural Lincolnshire. Much of the surrounding area probably does not identify as part of Leicester City itself.'

Source: Daily Mail June 30, 2020 06:28 UTC