UK Health Minister unable to rule out lockdown extension 

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

UK Health Minister Matt Hancock was unable to rule out an extension to the lockdown as a health chief warned the tiered system that ministers want England to return to may have to be strengthened.

The British Health Secretary said it was “too early for us to know” whether coronavirus cases will be brought down sufficiently to ease the second shutdown on December 2.