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Covid-19: PM announces four-week England lockdown

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a second national lockdown for
England to prevent a "medical and moral disaster" for the NHS.

He said Christmas may be "very different" but he hoped taking action now
would mean families can gather.

Non-essential shops and hospitality will have to close for four weeks from
Thursday, he said.

But unlike the restrictions in spring, schools, colleges and universities can
stay open.

After 2 December, the restrictions would be eased and regions would go back
to the tiered system, he said.

Mr Johnson said: "Christmas is going to be different this year, perhaps very
different, but it's my sincere hope and belief that by taking tough action
now we can allow families across the country to be together."

The prime minister told a Downing Street news conference that he was "truly,
truly sorry" for the impact on businesses, but said the furlough system
paying 80% of employee wages will be extended through November.

"No responsible prime minister" could ignore figures which suggested deaths
would reach "several thousand a day", with a "peak of mortality" worse than
the country saw in April, Mr Johnson said.

He said hospitals even in the south-west of England, where cases are among
the lowest, will run out of capacity in weeks.

"Doctors and nurses would be forced to choose which patients to treat, who
would get oxygen and who wouldn't, who would live and who would die," Mr
Johnson said.

Under the new restrictions:

People are being told to stay at home unless they have a specific reason to
leave, such as work which cannot be done from home and education

People are allowed to exercise outdoors alone, with their household or with
one other person

Meeting indoors or in private gardens will not be allowed

Pubs, bars, restaurants and non-essential retail across the nation will close
but takeaways and click-and-collect shopping can remain open

Construction sites and manufacturing workplaces can remain open

People are still allowed to form support bubbles

Children can move between homes if their parents are separated

Clinically vulnerable people are asked to be "especially careful" but people
are not being asked to resume shielding
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Mr Johnson, who chaired a cabinet meeting on Saturday afternoon, will make a
statement to Parliament on Monday.

The UK recorded another 21,915 confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday,
bringing the total since the pandemic began to 1,011,660.

Another 326 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive
test.

The UK is the ninth country to reach the milestone of a million cases - after
the US, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain, Argentina and Colombia.

But the true number of infections is expected to be higher due to a lack of
widespread testing at the start of the pandemic.

Prof Neil Ferguson, whose modelling was crucial to the decision to impose the
first lockdown, said keeping universities and schools open meant infections
would decrease more slowly this time.

He said the new restrictions could reduce cases by anywhere between 20% and
80%, adding that he hoped larger groups of people would be able to gather by
Christmas "if only for a few days".

Mr Johnson had previously resisted pressure to introduce nationwide
restrictions, saying they would be "disastrous" for the UK's finances and
opting instead for a three-tiered system targeting local areas in England.

Ahead of the news conference, school and university unions called for
education institutions to be closed and for teaching to move online in
another national lockdown.

The National Education Union said it would be "self-defeating" to ignore how
schools helped to spread the virus.

And "the health and safety of the country is being put at risk" by the
insistence on keeping in-person teaching on campuses, the University and
College Union said.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54763956

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總而言之，英格蘭將從下周四開始為期4週的全國封鎖，加上其他三個國家，英國正式進入全國二次封鎖

英國首相強森表示，此舉是希望在聖誕節的時候可以舉行家庭聚會，並且減低英國醫療系統的負擔

目前英國許多醫院已經取消了非必要手術，有些醫院甚至醫生必須依據病人嚴重程度來選擇病人

和3月的封鎖不同的是，學校和大學將可以保持上課

首相預計此舉可以降低20-80%的確診數，但一切都不容樂觀

英國今日成為了世界上第9個確診破百萬的國家
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