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Second lockdown now likely as minister George Eustice says current approach right 'for now'
A new Covid-19 lockdown covering much of Britain looked increasingly likely today after a Cabinet minister called the current approach right “for now”.
As senior scientists warned of hospitals being overwhelmed with 25,000 coronavirus patients by the end of November, expectations were growing that Boris Johnson will reluctantly have to order a temporary major shutdown before the end of the year.
Environment Secretary George Eustice kept the door open to such a move when asked about reports that the Government was being driven towards a “circuit breaker”.
“We think we have got the right approach for now,” the minister told Sky News.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/s...-a4573267.html
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Airport testing helps Charles de Gaulle overtake Heathrow for the first time!
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Paris's Charles de Gaulle has overtaken Heathrow as Europe's busiest airport, with the London hub reporting falling passenger numbers and rising losses.
"Already in France and Germany, even Canada and Ireland have moved to testing and this is the way to make sure we can protect jobs in the UK as well as protecting people from coronavirus," Mr Holland Kaye [of Heathrow Airport] told the BBC.
"The government really need to get on and make this happen before the beginning of December if we are going to save people's jobs."
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https://news.sky.com/story/pariss-ch...rport-12116818