the government’s latest extra Covid-19 restrictions, announced this morning, will have caused brows to furrow among those looking at the wider northern map.
Why, wondered many, are Merseyside, much of Lancashire and the North East of England now under tighter restrictions - including bar curfews - than much of this region, despite so many of our boroughs recording higher infection rates?The answer, according to several senior sources, is that this probably won’t be the case for long.By this time next week, Greater Manchester boroughs with high numbers - so most of them, with Stockport, Wigan and Trafford the only likely exceptions, if that - could well see similar measures.The apparent anomaly in today’s northern announcement is in large.