Is the UK going into a second lockdown?
As coronavirus cases continue to double every week, the UK could face new lockdown measures.
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance will give an update on the pandemic during a televised briefing from Downing Street this morning.
Professor Whitty is expected to warn the country faces a “very challenging winter” with the current trend heading in “the wrong direction”.
They will not be joined by prime minister Boris Johnson, who is expected to set out the next steps in tackling the pandemic during an address on Tuesday.
Speaking to ITV’s This Morning programme, Matt Hancock was unable to say whether England’s pubs would be allowed to open this weekend as the government prepares extra measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.
However the health secretary did suggest the new restrictions will focus on social settings rather than schools or the workplace.
