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Chancellor: We'll Seek To Exit Lockdown To A Tiered System After 4 Weeks

UK

Chancellor Rishi Sunak speaking to BBC's Today programme says that England will seek to exit to the previously in place three-tiered system at the end of the four-week lockdown that starts at midnight on Thursday.

  • New lockdown comes in on Thursday after gov't says the number of new COVID-19 cases in the country and the resulting hospitalisations is on course to be worse than the gov'ts worst-case scenario planning.
  • Speaking to Sky News yesterday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said there were no guarantees the UK would come out of lockdown at the start of December.

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