Culture Secretary refuses to rule out second national lockdown amid coronavirus spike | LBC
October 12, 2020
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as posted by the channelThe Culture Secretary has refused to rule out a second national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Speaking to LBC's Nick Ferrari, Oliver Dowden said the Government "doesn't want" to take the drastic new measure but refused to say whether it could be ruled out in the coming weeks and months if the virus continues to spread out of control.
He said: "The Prime Minister will set out full details of [new lockdown measures] but the Cabinet agreed it last night and there'll be a Cobra meeting today to sign it off.
"It is not a full lockdown - it is a measures, balanced and proportionate approach on a tiered system."
Nick highlighted the prediction by Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance that there would be 49-50,000 new Covid-19 cases each day by the middle of October and how Sunday's figures were in fact just over 12,000 cases.
Asked whether a new lockdown was necessary, Mr Dowden said: "What Patrick Vallance was talking about was the worst case scenario and clearly the number of infections is still rising rapidly.
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