Flexing lockdown rules ‘could be fatal’: UK health secretary

London, Jan 11 : British Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that flexing the Covid-19 lockdown rules “could be fatal,” urging the general public to stay at home amid surging coronavirus infections.
“Every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal” and staying at home was the “most important thing we can do collectively as a society,” Hancock told the BBC on Sunday.
Hancock did not rule out strengthening restrictions amid calls from scientists that the current rules need to be stricter, admitting that the National Health Service (NHS) was under “very serious pressure”, Xinhua news agency reported.
“People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,” he said.
Another 54,940 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 3,072,349, according to official figures released Sunday.
Another 563 have died within 28 days of a positive test, bringing the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain to 81,431, the data showed.