Hancock claims new rules ‘crystal clear’
Matt Hancock has defended his late-night Twitter announcement of the new lockdown rules in northern England by saying “we are moving quickly in some circumstances” to react to Covid-19’s spread.
“When you face a pandemic like this it is important sometimes to move quickly,” the health secretary told Sky News when challenged on the wisdom of his communications strategy.
“I understand the impact of decisions like these,” he added. “I understand that this is not the sort of decision anybody would want to take.”
Mr Hancock was challenged on the allegedly confusing nature of the restrictions, given that although households cannot meet indoors, pubs and hairdressers can remain open.
He said: “It is absolutely crystal clear … what the new rules are and we’ve brought them in to target specifically the problems that we’ve been able to see through the data.
“We want to do it with minimum impact. The evidence shows that the biggest risk in terms of the spread of the virus across this area is household transmission, where people are going to see each other in each other’s homes when they’re not in a household together, and also visiting friends and relatives.”
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