UK BARES NEW STRATEGY

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a new three-tier system to get a grip on the creeping spread of coronavirus in England, Euronews reported.

The strategy is designed to tailor appropriate measures to combat the localised spread of the virus with different areas of the country labelled "medium", "high" or "very high" risk.

The tiered local alert framework will be determined by infection rates, with each level imposing increasingly stricter restrictions.

"This is not how we want to live our lives, but this is the narrow path we have to tread between the social and economic trauma of a full lockdown, and the massive human and indeed economic cost of an uncontained epidemic," Johnson told the House of Commons.

At a press conference later on Monday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that business forced to close in the UK due to the new regulations could receive £3,000 per month to help them weather COVID-19.

Speaking at the same event on Monday night, Johnson defended further restrictions in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.

“These figures are flashing at us like dashboard warnings in a passenger jet, and we must act now,” he said.