Police were called to 1,008 reports of people having house parties and other gatherings across Greater Manchester in apparent defiance of the national coronavirus lockdown across the Easter weekend.
Police were called to 222 such reports on Easter Friday, 309 on Saturday, 386 on Easter Sunday and then a further 91 on bank holiday Monday, a total of 1,008 over the entire weekend, the M.E.N.
can reveal. Many of them involved people from more than one household coming together to enjoy garden barbecues in the warm weather.
The national lockdown, which was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on March 23, stipulates that people should only leave their homes to shop for basic necessities or medicine, for one form of exercise each day, for a
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