But last night, Prime Minister Boris Jonson said that the best approach for the whole of the UK is "a national lockdown that is tough enough to contain this variant."
Our photographer DAN MARTINO went along to Blackpool town centre to see what difference the announcement had made.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation on Monday in a televised speech which announced a strict national lockdown in order to attempt to supress coronavirus
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A deserted beach front
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Warning signs on Church Street, Blackpool
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Harry Ramsden's staff have decided to sleep it off
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Boris Johnson claimed that the new, faster spreading variant of Covid-19 is the reason that implementing previously successful approaches to supressing the virus has not worked this winter