The government has denied planning an October lockdown in England, after a newspaper report said the opposite.
The i newspaper said plans had been drawn up to extend the school half-term holiday if hospitalisations kept growing.
The i said in its report that the government could introduce some rules as part of a “firebreak”.
However the Department for Education said the report was “not true”.
“It is not true that the government is planning a lockdown or firebreak around the October half term”.
The prime minister’s spokesman also denied the report. He said plans had been kept for a range of scenarios – “but these kind of measures would only be reintroduced as a last resort to prevent unsustainable pressure on our NHS”.
“I think we’ve been clear throughout that we will take action, and indeed we have done when necessary to protect our NHS,” he said.
But the spokesman pointed out that when rules were brought in the past, the UK did not yet have the protection from vaccines.
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