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<p>With effect from 5 November until the start of December new national measures restrictions
will be introduced. We hoped that by strong local action, and with strong local leadership,
we could get the rates of infection down where the disease was surging. But it is
now clear that we need to take action immediately to protect the National Health Service
and to get ‘R’ decisively below 1. We must do this to curtail the exponential growth
in hospitalisations and deaths. At the end of the period, we will look to return to
a local and regional approach, based on the latest data.</p>
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