{"id":213294,"date":"2020-09-09T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213294"},"modified":"2020-09-11T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:57:33","slug":"coronavirus-gatherings-of-more-than-six-to-be-banned-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213294","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: gatherings of more than six to be banned in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Peter Walker and Simon Murphy \u2013 The Guardian Sept 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The government has announced emergency action to try and stem a feared autumn resurgence of coronavirus, tightening laws to ban virtually all gatherings of more than six people in England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Amid concerns that the current rules are both widely misunderstood and too difficult for police to implement, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/boris-johnson\">Boris Johnson<\/a> will hold a hastily-arranged Downing Street press conference on Wednesday to outline the new restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The dramatic change of approach by No 10 follows a sudden spike in the number of people being infected with the virus, with almost 8,500 positive tests being recorded in England in the last three days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/tighter-restrictions-to-be-introduced-in-bolton-to-curb-coronavirus\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tuesday ministers added Bolton to the number of cities and towns under local lockdowns<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, restricting restaurants and pubs to takeaways and forcing all venues to close from 10pm to 5am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Bottlenecks in laboratories processing Covid tests have hampered the government\u2019s attempts to keep on top of the pandemic. The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, warned that <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/sep\/08\/keir-starmer-warns-uks-test-and-trace-system-on-verge-of-collapse\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the test-and-trace system is \u201con the verge of collapse\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With the government saying delays to tests could take two weeks to address, headteachers and care homes have warned of potential knock-on effects in trying to contain new outbreaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ministers have been increasingly worried that younger people ignoring the rules has helped push the daily rate of positive coronavirus tests in the UK to 2,400 or above for three consecutive days. The fear is that currently low levels of hospital admissions for Covid-19 could also shoot up, as older relatives and other more vulnerable people are infected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/coronavirus-gatherings-of-more-than-six-to-be-banned-in-england\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not succeed in containing the \u201cpandemic\u201d but if nothing else it will help put the lid on political gatherings the authorities don\u2019t approve of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213296,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213294\/revisions\/213296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}