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'My gut feeling is that this 10pm curfew is doing more harm than good'

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham calls for an urgent review of the 10pm curfew

Refusing to self-isolate when told to is now illegal in England, with fines of up to 拢10,000. In Greater Manchester, which is currently under a local lockdown, more than 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to isolate after more than a hundred tested positive for coronavirus. The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, told Mishal Husain: "I think there needs to be an urgent review of the emerging evidence from police forces across the country" about the impact of the 10pm curfew for bars and restaurants. He went on to say: "My gut feeling is that this curfew is doing more harm than good. It creates an incentive for people to gather in the street or more probably to gather in the home. That is the opposite of what local restrictions here are trying to do." With John Apter, National chair of the Police Federation and 91热爆 reporter Mike Stevens.

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