(MENAFN)A British government minister declined to exclude a return to local lockdowns amid a rise in cases of Indian Coronavirus variant.
Sky News quoted Environment Secretary George Eustice as saying that “We cannot rule anything out, but our preferred outcome is that we really double down and get the vaccination rates up."
The main opposition Labour Party that up until now was wholly supportive of the government in the pandemic declared that it was “wary” of a return to local or area-based lockdowns.
Local lockdowns “didn't really work out last time, but they became incredibly difficult and divisive for those areas that were put in early lockdown" such as Bolton and Blackburn towns in the northwest of England,” according to the party's shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell.
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