Birmingham lockdown: Is Solihull in Birmingham? Is Solihull in lockdown?

“So to emphasise, this is about mixing households, it is not about prevention of schools, workplaces, transport, any of the other options – it is about household mixing.”

There are currently 68 patients undergoing treatment for COVID-19 across the city, seven of which are in intensive care. 

Dr David Rossier, chief executive at University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) said that even with local lockdown measures, it is likely cases will continue to rise over the next week. 

He told Birmingham Live: “Even if we brought in some sort of social measures today to stop the spread completely, we would still expect to see cases double in a week – those people have already got it, they just don’t know it yet.