Northeast England Under New Restrictions as COVID-19 Hospital Admissions in England Rise

Members of the public queue outside the new walk-through testing center as it opened at Glasgow Caledonian University's ARC sports center in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Sept. 18, 2020. Andrew Milligan-WPA Pool/Getty Images

Stronger measures to curb the spread of the CCP virus are in place for parts of North East England from Sept. 18 because of the high infection rate in the region.

With hospital admissions in England “doubling every eight days or so,” Health Minister Matt Hancock said he wouldn’t rule out a second nationwide lockdown, although it would be a last resort.