Express.co.uk readers can vote in our poll on whether they agree with another national lockdown. And let us know more about what you think by scrolling down and leaving a comment.
Our poll comes as ministers are thought to be considering a two-week “circuit break” in a bid to slow transmission of the virus.
The Prime Minister has insisted a second lockdown is the “last thing anybody wants” but admitted the current measures would need to be kept “under review”.
Speaking during a visit to the Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre construction site near Oxford on Friday, Mr Johnson said: “On Monday we brought in the measures that we did, the ‘rule of six’, to really try and restrict what people are doing and to bring in a new buffer – and to make it absolutely clear, the ‘rule of six’: indoors six maximum, six outdoors maximum.
“But the crucial thing is at the same time to observe the basic rules on social distancing – hands, face, space – that is what everybody has got to do if we want to continue to beat this thing.
“But as we look at this particular curve and what is happening now, clearly we are going to keep everything under review. I don’t want to get into a second national lockdown at all, it is the last thing anybody wants.
“I don’t want to go into bigger lockdown measures at all, we want to keep schools open and it is fantastic the schools have gone back in the way they have. We want to keep the economy open as far as we possibly can, we want to keep businesses going.
“The only way we can do that is obviously if people follow the guidance.”
The Prime Minister also warned the UK is facing a second wave of coronavirus.
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Professor Neil Ferguson – whose modelling led to the Government ordering the lockdown in March – has warned new restrictions will be needed “sooner rather than later”.
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Right now we are at about the levels of infection we were seeing in this country in late February.
“If we leave it another two to four weeks we will be back at levels we were seeing more like mid-March.
“That’s clearly going to cause deaths because people will be hospitalised.
“I think some additional measures are likely to be needed sooner rather than later.
“We have in some sense a perfect storm right now of people, as they have been told to, getting back to normal – schools reopening, a surge in cases so therefore the testing system is under strain.
“So unfortunately we do have to roll the relaxation of measures back a little bit and get contacts down in the population.”
A number of local lockdowns are already in place, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Friday announcing new restrictions for large parts of England’s North West, West Yorkshire and the Midlands.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned it is “increasingly likely” further lockdown measures will be needed in the capital.
