UK prime minister Boris Johnson has announced a second month-long national lockdown for England, as counting resumes in Queensland after Saturday’s election. Follow latest updates
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The UK’s culture secretary Oliver Dowden has provided more clarity on the lockdown measures due to be imposed in England from Thursday 5 November. Pubs and restaurants will shut unless serving takeaway food, and all leisure and entertainment venues and non-essential shops will close.
However, Dowden said elite sport and film and TV productions will be allowed to continue behind closed doors. Under the previous lockdown, the Premier League season was suspended for three months.
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The changes mean people should WFH where possible
But where this is not possible, travel to a place of work will be permitted – e.g. this includes (but not exhaustive) elite sport played behind closed doors, film & tv production, telecoms workers
Protesters opposing Covid-19 restrictions have clashed with police in cities across Spain after a six-month state of emergency was imposed this week.
Reuters reports that riot police shot blank bullets to disperse scores of demonstrators who were setting fire to rubbish bins in Madrid’s main thoroughfare, Gran Via. Meanwhile, protesters pelted police with rocks and other projectiles in Barcelona. In the northern Spanish city of Logroño, about 150 people attacked police with stones, set fire to containers and looted shops. Riot police were drafted in to quell disturbances in Haro, in the wine-growing region of La Rioja.
