Boris Johnson warns of second wave of pandemic and tighter lockdown across England - BBC News

Boris Johnson has warned that a second wave of the pandemic is coming, as the number of infections rises sharply. More than three million people in England have been told they will face tighter restrictions. Merseyside, Lancashire and parts of the Midlands and West Yorkshire are to face the same tighter rules now in force in the north-east of England. The NHS Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham has been placed on high alert. The Prime Minister says he doesn’t want another full scale national lockdown an