British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that coronavirus restrictions in England are "unfortunately on the verge of getting tougher", as the country struggles to curb the deadly increase in coronavirus infections.
In an interview with BBC "The Andrew Marr Show", Johnson responded on whether the restrictions currently set in the hardest-hit areas of England are sufficient, as hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients.
"Maybe we need to do things in the next few weeks that are going to be more difficult in many parts of the country, and I'm totally fine with that," Johnson said.
He added, "I bet that the people of this country will reconcile with that."
After pressing on him to clarify what those tighter restrictions might be, Johnson said, "There is a set of tougher measures that we have to take into account. I don't want to speculate, I'm not going to imagine now what it will be."
"Obviously, the school closure that we had to do in March is one of those things," he added, as debate over mixed government messages about reopening schools continues to dominate the headlines.
The PM insisted that by spring the situation across the country should improve as more people were vaccinated.
Under the current system, most of England falls under the most difficult level III and IV restrictions - with the latter being applied across London, with a tough message about staying home.
On Saturday, the United Kingdom recorded its highest daily increase in infections with the Coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, with 57,725 new cases of coronavirus and 445 deaths.
The country was among the hardest hit in Europe, with more than 2.6 million infections and nearly 75,000 deaths.
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