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UK police to get tougher on rule breakers who don’t follow lockdown imposed to contract new strain of virus, the country’s top officer and the minister responsible for policing said on Tuesday. The UK has been hit by a new highly transmissible strain of the coronavirus.
As Britain is struggling to contract new strain of corona virus infections, hospitalizations and deaths; people not following proper guidelines and rules will be charged high fines as punishment. In parts of London, one in 20 people are now thought to have infected with the disease.
The capital’s police chief Cressida Dick, the country’s most senior officer, said officers would take tougher action to enforce lockdown rules amid concern that some people are continuing to ignore measures.
“It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,” Dick wrote in the Times newspaper. “We have been clear that those who breach Covid-19 legislation are increasingly likely to face fines.”
Policing minister Kit Malthouse said the government could consider bringing in even stricter rules if the numbers relating to infections and hospitalizations showed action was necessary.
“If we’re going to get through this in good shape, and hopefully make sure that this is the last big lockdown of the country, it’s very important that we all stick to the rules,” he told Sky News.
“If we’re going to make sure that this is the last lockdown ... we all need to stick by the rules and take it really, really seriously and unfortunately we haven’t seen that in some parts of the country from a minority of people who are frankly letting the rest of us down.”
