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Britain’s government is considering a lockdown for the central English city of Leicester amid a spike of COVID-19 cases. | AP
The spike comes amid fears that the disease has been spreading through the city’s large Asian community, who often live in multi-generational households. The local outbreak underscores the disproportionate hit that the pandemic has had on Britain’s minority communities.
Britain has Europe’s worst confirmed coronavirus death toll, with some 43,600 dead and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has been strongly criticized for what has been seen as a slow, chaotic response to the pandemic. Britain is now slowly emerging from a total national lockdown imposed on March 23, with plans to ease things further by early next month. That reopening plan has rested on the notion that local outbreaks could be tamped down through aggressive programs to track, test, and trace those infected. Now with a test case in the offing, it is becoming clear that carrying out such a plan may not prove so simple. Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said defining the lockdown area would be “one of the biggest problems,” as local authority boundaries can run down the middle of a street.“Locking down at the regional level would be seen as unfair or worse, as Leicester City has really very little to do with rural Lincolnshire,” he said. “People do not identify with their regional boundaries and many would not actually know where they are.”Local lawmaker Claudia Webbe accused the government of being slow to respond and said that local authorities have not been given the help and the information they need to attack the outbreak head-on. “What they’ve been doing is giving Leicester bows and arrows to address a major pandemic problem,” she told the BBC. “This is ridiculous.”
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