Leicester was made subject to the UK’s first local lockdown in June
Leicester and Leicestershire will be subject to the toughest tier of restrictions after the national lockdown ends on 2 December.
The city and county will move from tier two to three, meaning very high risk, the government announced.
It means household mixing is banned and pubs and restaurants will close except for delivery and takeaways.
The city and parts of the county were subject to the UK’s first local lockdown in June.
The neighbouring county of Rutland will go into tier two of the government’s three-tier system.
Leicester has been subject to some level of coronavirus restrictions since the first national lockdown in March.
The government has set out the reasoning behind the tier decisions for each area.
In a written ministerial statement, the government said of Leicester and Leicestershire: “Improvements have been seen in overall case rates in all but one lower-tier local authority, but remain very high at 355 per 100,000, including in over 60s at 250 per 100k. The pressure on the local NHS remains very high.”
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons: “I know how tough this is, both for areas that have been in restrictions for a long time like Leicester and Greater Manchester, and also for areas where cases have risen sharply.”
The system will be regularly reviewed – with the first scheduled for 16 December.
The new allocations will put some areas under significantly tighter restrictions than before the second lockdown started.
Places like Market Harborough and Lutterworth have managed to remain in tier one since the system was first introduced, but they along with the rest of the county will go into tier three.
Reacting to the news, the county’s director of public health Mike Sandys said: “Over the past few days, rates have started to fall and we’ve made some progress. But it’s important to put this into perspective.
Coronavirus infections in England have fallen by about a third over lockdown, according to a major study.
Some of the worst-hit areas saw the biggest improvements – but, despite this progress, cases remained high across England.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the data showed the country could not “take our foot off the pedal just yet”.
The findings by Imperial College London were based on swabbing more than 100,000 people between 13-24 November.
The React-1 study is highly respected and gives us the most up-to-date picture of Covid-19 in the country.
Its researchers estimated the virus’s reproduction (R) rate had fallen to 0.88. That means on average every infection translated to less than one other new infection, so the epidemic is shrinking.
Run alongside pollster Ipsos MORI, the Imperial study involved testing a random sample of people for coronavirus, whether or not they had symptoms.
The results of these tests suggested a 30% fall in infections between the last study and the period of 13-24 November.
Before that, cases were accelerating – doubling every nine days when the study last reported at the end of October.
Now cases are coming down, but more slowly than they shot up – halving roughly every 37 days.
In the North West and North East, though – regions with some of the highest numbers of cases – infections fell by more than half.
The findings suggest cases are now highest in the East Midlands and West Midlands.
Lockdown came into force across England on 5 November but national data, based on people with symptoms, suggests there was a spike in cases in the week after.
This was put down to pre-lockdown socialising since it takes five days on average after catching the infection for it to be detectable by a test.
Despite clear improvements, overall cases remain high.
An estimated one in 100 people have coronavirus – double the rate in September when infections began to rise.
The study also found certain groups had a higher chance of testing positive over this period:
It estimated that:
Prof Paul Elliott, who leads the study, said the data offered “encouraging signs” for England’s epidemic.
NHS doctors and nurses in England are being given access to training in treating Covid-19 patients from some of UK-based technology companies.
A consortium called Resilient XR has provided the health service with interactive videos that allow healthcare staff to rotate the content 360 degrees and view it from any angle.
The group is a collaboration between industry, academia and government. It is made up of Microsoft, volumetric production studio Dimension, digital technology innovation centre Digital Catapult, content distribution platform VISR VR, mixed-reality development agencies Fracture Reality and Make Real, the University of Leeds’ Centre for Immersive Technologies, and University College London.
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and Health Education England (HEE) are advising and contributing to Resilient XR to ensure the content is accurate, informative and up to date.
Dr Andy Lewington, consultant renal physician and associate medical director for medical education at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, said: “Online resources for medical training have long been required, but the production has rapidly accelerated in light of the impact of Covid-19 on the UK and an urgent requirement for remote education using mixed reality technologies.
Psychiatrists have already reported an increase in mental health crises that they have to deal with (Picture: Getty Images)
Psychiatrists are expecting a dramatic rise in the number of people who will need mental health care during and after lockdown. The Royal College of Psychiatrists, which represents the country’s 18,000 psychiatrists, told Sky News that they are seriously concerned about the lockdown causing people to experience severe mental illnesses and require urgent care. They have urged the Government to make sure mental health services are adequately funded for upcoming increase in demand. The group’s president Dr Adrian James said they have seen an increase in people attending emergency departments because of ‘crisis’ mental health issues.
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