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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However, he went on to dub schools "vectors for transmission, causing the virus to spread between households."
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Nearing the end of his address, Johnson revealed that the UK has now vaccinated more people against Covid-19 than in the rest of Europe combined. "The pace of vaccination is accelerating," he said.