UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Oct. 14 rejected Labour’s call for an immediate 2-to-3-week-long national lockdown, but said he would “rule out nothing” for the future.
During the prime minister’s Q&A time in Parliament, Labour leader Keir Starmer said he didn’t think the government’s three-tiered CCP virus alert system “goes far enough,” and asked Johnson why he rejected the “circuit-breaker” approach—short national lockdowns each lasting 2 to 3 weeks—which the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) had listed as one of the non-pharmaceutical interventions that it said “should be considered for immediate introduction,” on Sept. 21.
