{"id":472,"date":"2020-10-16T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/?p=472"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:15:31","slug":"lancashire-placed-into-tier-3-lockdown-as-covid-rates-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/2020\/10\/16\/lancashire-placed-into-tier-3-lockdown-as-covid-rates-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire placed into tier 3 lockdown as Covid rates soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lancashire has been placed into a tier three lockdown by the government to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tier three lockdown means that all pubs and bars will be shut, unless they can act as restaurants only, and people will be banned from socialising between different households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the only other area which are in a \u2018very high risk\u2019 lockdown is Liverpool City region, whilst Manchester has rejected its tier three placement on account of a lack of funding to cover the money lost as a result of a further lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"118\" src=\"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-16-at-15.29.34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-16-at-15.29.34.png 640w, https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-16-at-15.29.34-300x55.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Labour councillor for Fleetwood East in Lancashire, Lorraine Beavers, said that a circuit breaker lockdown is needed nationwide to ensure a level playing field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re moving fast enough. They had different rules for Blackpool and now they want to put it in a lockdown. It\u2019s been a total shambolic mess,\u201d says Cllr Beavers (Lab).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county of Lancashire recorded 815 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, with spikes in Blackburn and Preston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes as Boris Johnson is set to announce changes to the lockdown situation in Manchester after a clash with Mayor Andy Burnham at a press briefing at 4pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lancashire will officially go into tier 3 lockdown on Saturday the 17th of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancashire has been placed into a tier three lockdown by the government to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. A tier three lockdown means that all pubs and bars will be shut, unless they can act as restaurants only,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[36,40,81,82,96,97,38,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}