Asked if a lockdown could be extended beyond early December, senior cabinet minister Michael Gove told Sky News: "Yes." The new lockdown announcement came 10 days after Johnson told parliament it would "make no sense at all" to "turn the lights out with a full national lockdown". The other parts of the United Kingdom - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - have their own policies and enacted tougher COVID-19 health restrictions in recent weeks. EXTRA FINANCIAL SUPPORTGovernment scientific adviser Jeremy Farrar said on Sunday the lockdown would need to be extended beyond early December unless the epidemic was clearly shrinking. The survey showed the Bank of England is likely to announce a 100 billion-pound expansion of its bond buying stimulus on Thursday.

Source: bd News24 November 01, 2020 20:03 UTC