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Councils have the power to 'take action' and impose local lockdowns, says Health Secretary

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daily Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: "We do have powers to do things locally if we need to take local action to control the outbreaks."Those powers reside with me as secretary of state and we've got a system in place so that local leaders, if they have an outbreak locally, can raise concerns if they need more action than they have in their own powers locally."This link between the local and national is absolutely critical in getting this right." Baroness Dido Harding, the boss of England's Test and Trace service, added that local authorities are already imposing these measures."People are working really hard on the ground to support businesses and organisations who have local outbreaks and help them contain them", she.

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