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UK regions under pressure to submit to virus restrictions

by Danica Kirka
| October 16, 2020 4:27 AM

LONDON (AP) — England's northwestern county of Lancashire, home to 1.5 million people, has agreed to accept the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions as the British government warned Friday that it has the authority to impose such measures on high-risk areas that continue to resist.

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