England will soon be entering a second national lockdown after their original shelter-in-place in March,  since the grim mark of passing one million COVID-19 cases. The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced this after the government plans were leaked to newspapers, and from the warnings of UK’s top scientists that a lockdown is needed.

“We must act now to contain this Autumn surge,” said Boris Johnson, British prime minister. 

The lockdown will see the closure of shops including hair salons, gyms, restaurants, non-essential businesses, and pubs.

Schools, playgrounds, and universities will remain open amidst the lockdown. Non-essential traveling is discouraged by the government, though traveling is allowed with the following of England’s rules of quarantine due after their return.

Only for specific reasons s education, groceries shopping, work, for health reasons, exercising, are   people are allowed to leave their homes. And this second national lockdown is to last until December 2nd with hopes of the virus becoming contained by then. 

The United States has remained at the top for both COVID-19 cases and deaths for months on end without a national lockdown, with close to ten million cases and an average increase of around 90,000+ coronavirus cases, which is a 51% increase of the average two weeks ago.

The United States has so far 240,000 deaths, from the time of writing, increasing by the day. After now two national lockdowns, 48,000 deaths for the UK. 

“We were really hoping to crater the cases in preparation for a bad Winter, we’ve done basically the opposite,” said Tara Smith, a professor of epidemiology at Kent State University. 

The United States has only been rapidly rising across all the states as winter gradually approaches. Predictions of where the US will be heading all points to exponential growth of infections and deaths if this trend continues.

The public health system had only been further strained as cases rose due to the resistance to mandates of social distancing, mask wearing, and more time spent in indoor settings like restaurants. 

COVID-19 trends have only been showing trends of increase rather than the opposite, and chances are it’ll only get worse as the months go on if the mandates aren’t followed.