Coronavirus could be contained in pockets of the country because Britain is not yet seeing the same national outbreak it did in spring, the chief medical officer for England has said.
Chris Whitty said that the second wave was looking more localised than the first and that illnesses and deaths could end up “very highly concentrated” in some areas. Boris Johnson said there could be a second national lockdown if that was not the case, urging the country to show “collective forbearance” in sticking to the rules to avoid one.
Although rates are increasing across the country the prime minister said that there were “very clear local peaks” in infection rates in the northeast, northwest and parts of the Midlands. “It may be that this