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‘The weeks and months ahead will continue to be difficult and will test the mettle of this country,’ Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said in the Commons. In a complicated new system meant to be a simplification, English regions were put into one of three tiers of alert level: 1, medium; 2, high; or 3, very high, according to the proportion of coronavirus cases there. In tier 3, further local restrictions could be added. Liverpool was selected for tier 3, in which betting shops and libraries would close and pubs too, unless they sold main meals. Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition, called for a two- or three-week circuit-breaker national lockdown, with closure of pubs and restaurants, but not of schools. His call came after Sage, the scientific advisory group, said it had asked for such a thing on 21 September. Scotland imposed 16 days of restrictions that included the closure of pubs in the central belt.
At the beginning of the week, Sunday 11 October, total deaths (within 28 days of testing positive for the coronavirus) stood at 42,760, of whom 443 had died in the past week, compared with 346 the week before.
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