Vaughan Gething says county in ‘parallel position to early February … We were in national lockdown in the third week of March’
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On the Today programme this morning Kit Malthouse, the policing minister, said (after a bit of prompting) that people should report neighbours to the police if they were breaking the new “rule of six”. (See 8.46am.) But when Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), was asked on the same programme a bit later if he too would encourage people to report their neighbours in that way, he gave a more nuanced answer. He replied:
Well, in the first instance I guess someone could speak to that person ….
But I think the real point here is about individuals taking responsibility. As an individual, as a family member, as a person in whatever business, we all have to take responsibility.
The Welsh health minister has warned that a national lockdown could be a few weeks away unless people follow the new Covid-19 regulations.
On the day most people in Wales are obliged to wear masks when they go into shops and other public places, Vaughan Gething said the county was in a “parallel position to early February,” adding: “We were in national lockdown in the third week of March.”
We have a number of weeks to be able to get to a position where we can recover some of the ground with a return to effective social distancing, with a return to respecting the rules we have in place to save people’s lives or we will be forced into greater local lockdowns and the potential for another national lockdown.
