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The political commentator forecast further outbreaks of COVID-19 across the UK following a local lockdown being placed on Leicester. Mr Dale told Express.co.uk both Spain and Australia are experiencing local coronavirus outbreaks and the UK Government should plan for similar scenarios.  

Mr Dale said: “I think there will be other outbreaks in areas other than Leicester.

“It could well be that there are some others, we have seen it happen in other European countries.

“It is happening in Spain a lot at the moment, it is happening in Australia so there is no reason to think that we will be immune from that.

“The test and trace system has really got to crack into gear.

“It is operational, I think it is working to a large extent, but it is certainly not a kind of world beating system that we were promised all those weeks ago.”

Leicester was placed into lockdown on June 29 following a surge of coronavirus cases in the city.

On July 16, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced Leicester would remain in lockdown for another two weeks but that some restrictions would be eased.

The UK was placed in lockdown in March to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed from the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

It has been mandatory to wear a face covering when using public transport since June 15.

At the time of writing, Britain has the tenth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world. 

The UK has more than 300,000 cases in total at the time of writing.

The death toll in Britain is currently more than 45,000.

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Worldwide there have been more than 16.5 million COVID-19 cases.

The death toll has reached more than 650,000.

More than 10,100,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus across the globe.

The US has the most COVID-19 cases in the world with more than 4.3 million.

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