Covid-19 Update

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:44 pm on 21 September 2020.

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Photo of Matthew Hancock Matthew Hancock Secretary of State for Health and Social Care 3:44, 21 September 2020

There is an important balance between the measures we need to take across the country as a whole, and the further and stronger measures in local areas. My right hon. Friend will have seen, particularly in the past week, that we have expanded some of those local interventions to cover bigger geographies, but he is right to say that there are some parts of the country where, thankfully, the number of cases is still very low. So the balance between what we do nationally and what we do locally is as important as the balance in terms of what we do overall.