Coronavirus: Disease Control

(asked on 1st July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a policy on how many local lockdowns can take place concurrently in different cities before a decision on a further full lockdown of the UK is made in response to the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 18th November 2020

The decision on restrictions is not purely one made on case numbers and rates. It is also important to look at the pattern of transmission, the geography involved and whether the local and national assessment is that the outbreak is under control. A variety of indicators are used in considering levels of risk, including but not limited to incidence rates, positivity rate, Public Health England exceedance data, outbreaks data, 111 referrals, hospital admissions and mortality rates. With effect from 5 November until the start of December new national measures restrictions will be introduced. We must do this to curtail the exponential growth in hospitalisations and deaths. At the end of the period, we will look to return to a local and regional approach, based on the latest data.

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