SAGE experts have warned tighter national lockdown rules are "inevitable" - as coronavirus could hit the same rate as in March by the end of this month.
The government's advisors sounded the alarm today after the UK's infection rate almost doubled in a week. There are now 125.7 cases per 100,000 people across the UK.
And 14,542 positive results were confirmed yesterday - up more than 2,000 on the day before. Boris Johnson is now thought to be considering new local, regional or national lockdown measures urgently after a briefing with scientific advisors yesterday.
Whitehall had been focusing on plans for a new 'three-tier' system of local lockdowns, to bring in tighter restrictions at a stroke across swathes of northern Englnad.
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