I
s the coronavirus actually levelling Britain down?
Different parts of the UK have been subject to different levels of restrictions in this pandemic. On the face of it this discrepancy is justified by the varying rates at which the infection is spreading around the country.
In England, parts of the northwest are currently registering around 80 new daily cases per 100,000 people – which means the epidemic is spreading around eight times faster there than it is in the southeast.