Leicester, U.K.
Lockdown reimposed: Leicester has become the first British city to be placed under a local lockdown, part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls a whack-a-mole strategy to control the spread of the coronavirus. Elsewhere in England, the remaining restrictions on restaurants, hair salons, and shops are set to be eased this week, but all nonessential businesses in Leicester have been shuttered, with only supermarkets and pharmacies remaining open. Students who had just returned to class were sent back home. The city, the 10th largest in the U.K. and the home of Stilton cheese, has registered some 950 Covid-19 cases over the past two weeks, with clusters of outbreaks at garment factories.