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26 Nov 2020

How Leicester has struggled after 150 days of Covid restrictions

Communities Editor

Northern Ireland will enter a circuit-breaker for a fortnight starting tomorrow. In Leicester, they know more than most about the strains of lockdown.

It’s more than 150 days since local restrictions were imposed on the city’s residents and they have been living with some form of enhanced measures ever since. And today they learned they will return to tier 3 at the end of the latest lockdown.