⁍ The British government is planning to enforce a total social lockdown across a majority of northern Britain and potentially London, The Times reported late on Sunday.

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⁍ Under the new lockdown measures being considered, all pubs, restaurants and bars would be ordered to shut for two weeks initially, the report said.

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⁍ Households would also be banned indefinitely from meeting each other in any indoor location where they were not already under the order.

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– The British government is planning to impose a total social lockdown across a majority of northern Britain and potentially London, to combat a second wave of COVID-19, the Times of London reports. Under the new lockdown measures being considered, all pubs, restaurants, and bars would be ordered to shut for two weeks initially, the report said. Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said any new national lockdown would threaten jobs, livelihoods, and human contact. households would also be banned indefinitely from meeting each other in any indoor location where they were not already under the order. Britain had last week imposed new measures that required people to work from home where possible and had ordered restaurants and bars to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19, with new restrictions lasting probably six months.