Liverpool credited with strong fight against COVID-19

Name: Liverpool credited with strong fight against COVID-19
Uploaded: 2020-08-07T11:15:51Z
Duration: 2 min 55 s
Description: A common criticism of the UK’s tackling of the coronavirus crisis has been a lack of clear, decisive leadership, but now one city is being held up as an example of how a coordinated community effort can work.

A common criticism of the UK’s tackling of the coronavirus crisis has been a lack of clear, decisive leadership, but now one city is being held up as an example of how a coordinated community effort can work.

A common criticism of the United Kingdom’s tackling of the coronavirus crisis has been a lack of clear, decisive leadership.

Now one city is being held up as an example of how a coordinated community effort can work.

There has been a surge of localised cases in Liverpool but instead of a blanket lockdown, it has just shut down small pockets of the city.

And volunteers are playing a big part in taking care of people.

Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports.

By Laurence Lee