Leicester Lockdown Latest news29 Jun 2020 09:34
Sir Peter Soulsby received an email at 1am with recommendations that the city should stay “under current lockdown restrictions” for a further two weeks, the city mayor has said.
Asked what the Government report says, Sir Peter said: “Not very much, all of the dramatic stuff about local lockdown has diminished to two more weeks of present restrictions, perhaps.
“The report itself doesn’t give any good reason why we should do that and is obviously written by someone who doesn’t know the city.”
The city mayor told BBC Radio Leicester that the Government report reads as though it has “hastily been cobbled together in an attempt to do something”.
Sticking to current restrictions would mean that pubs and restaurants braced to open this weekend could face further delays inviting customers back.
Despite the email, Sir Peter said he is not convinced that Leicester should be treated any differently to anywhere else.
He admitted that at this stage he does not know who would make such a decision or how it would be enforced.
He described the whole situation as "intensely frustrating" and said that the Government have been "very, very difficult" to communicate with.
A meeting that was scheduled for 9am today, between Government officials, Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Public Health England has now been postponed.
Talk of a local lockdown ramped up this weekend but until now, there has been no indication as to what it would look like.
The city council have been repeatedly asking Public Health and DHSC for up to date and detailed data about where cases are.
The Government has not answered key questions about the issue that were submitted to it yesterday by LeicestershireLive.
Up to June 23, 2,987 people in the city have tested positive Covid-19, with 866 of them, 29 per cent, in the two weeks up to then.
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