All non-essential shops have to shut from today in Leicester and schools will close to most pupils from Thursday.
Restaurants, bars and hairdressers also won't be able to open as planned this weekend.
around ten per cent of Britain's recent new infections were in the midlands city, and UK health secretary Matt Hancock says he had to act.
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