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Local lockdown 'just days away' for some of UK's biggest coronavirus hotspots

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FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox More local lockdowns are "just days away" after a list of 36 areas where coronavirus is spiking were revealed, it has been reported.

Leicester was placed into a local lockdown on Monday after its infection rate hit 135 per 100,000 people, a figure which Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs is three times higher than the next highest local area.The lockdown means all non-essential shops were shut and schools closed to most pupils while anyone in the city with symptoms has been asked to come forward.The government also says extra funding will be made available to increase testing.On Tuesday a list of 36 cities and counties where the deadly.

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