People exercising and going to the supermarket face a further crackdown as the government tightens up enforcement of lockdown rules.
Boris Johnson held crisis talks with ministers yesterday after coronavirus cases continued to surge despite a national lockdown in England.
According to the Times he told them the situation in the NHS was “parlous and perilous”, with more than 30,000 Covid patients in hospital - well over the first peak.
Ministers and scientists fear even the current strict lockdown - which orders people to stay at home except for a limited list of exemptions - may not be enough to contain a more transmissible new variant of Covid-19.
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