London may be heading for a ban on households mixing and more than a million people in England and Wales are under new local lockdowns this weekend.
Ten million people in the capital have been warned that tougher restrictions are likely within weeks. Sadiq Khan, the mayor, called for mixing between households to be banned within days.
The city is “at a very worrying tipping point”, he said. “We’re seeing a sharp rise in 111 calls, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units.”
A government source said that if rates did not stop rising “household mixing would be the next thing you go to. London might be two or three weeks behind the north. But next week we will look at the data again.”
