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Following Tuesday s confusion over the coronavirus restrictions in Blackburn and Darwen and Burnley, official Government guidance has now been updated online - with one very important piece of advice altered. Yesterday two million people in eight areas affected by the spread of the Indian variant were left in utter confusion after updated guidance stated they should only travel in and out of their local areas for essential reasons - work, health and education - and also be tested twice a week. However, following a meeting, public health directors for the eight affected areas issued a joint statement saying they had had it confirmed that there were
Full list of things you can do in Blackburn as Government change ONE piece of official coronavirus advice thisislancashire.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisislancashire.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin has called for clarity from the government over Kirklees being placed under fresh Covid restrictions THE Mayor of West Yorkshire has called for urgent clarification from the government after Kirklees was named one of eight places across the country where people are being urged against all but essential travel in and out of the area. Speaking this lunchtime, Tracy Brabin hosted a press conference calling for the government to explain their decision to ‘slip’ the decision to put Kirklees on the list last Friday night as ‘not good enough’. Latest figures show it has the fourth highest infection rate in the country, behind Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Bedford.
Blackburn no travel guidance not law, Number 10 confirms A GOVERNMENT spokesman has confirmed that new guidance affecting eight Indian Variant hotspot areas is ‘not statutory’. No 10 said it wanted to move away from “top-down edicts” as lockdown restrictions ease, and stressed it was for individuals to make a judgment on how to behave. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “It is important to emphasise that this is guidance, these are not statutory restrictions placed on those local areas. “We have talked before about where we are at this stage in the pandemic in the UK, where we are able to move away from top-down edicts from the Government and start transitioning to a position where we have moved back to where the public are able to exercise their good judgment, as they have done throughout.