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Pandemic lessons from the North

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Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox There was one particularly balmy night in summer 2020 that will probably get fleeting mention in most write-ups of the last year.

Yet it was a significant and symptomatic plot point in the pandemic story. At 9.16pm on July 30, as the sun set over millions of northerners enjoying their fourth week of post-lockdown freedom, health secretary Matt Hancock posted a tweet.

There had been a government meeting, he reported. “Based on the data, we decided that in Greater Manchester, parts of West Yorkshire and East Lancashire, we need to take immediate action to keep people safe,” . “The spread is largely due to households meeting and not abiding to

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