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'This looks like a second wave - we should go the whole hog': MP calls on government to go further with new measures
An MP has urged the government to 'go the whole hog' with new restrictions as he warned that a rise in cases in some areas 'looks like the start of a second wave'. New local restrictions announced by health secretary Matt Hancock last night (Thursday) ban people from different households from meeting each other indoors.The rules apply in the whole of Greater Manchester, as well as parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire.It comes after NHS data showed that much of the transmission in these areas was down to friends and family meeting up in private homes.Yorkshire MP Barry Sheerman said he feared a second wave of coronavirus had already started adding that lockdown measures need to be tougher.He said the government should be going further
