The UK government has been accused of bringing in “local lockdowns by stealth” after issuing guidance urging people in hotspots of the Indian CCP virus variant to restrict their socialising and travel.
The updated advice encourages people in eight areas in England including Bolton, Leicester, Kirklees, and the London Borough of Hounslow not to meet indoors in a bid to halt the spread of the new variant, also known as B1617.2, which some experts say could be 50 percent more transmissible than the Kent variant.
