Nottinghamshire is doing well at following lockdown shopping rules

Nottinghamshire people are continuing to successfully keep shopping trips down to a minimum. Photo: David Jones

The latest weekly Google report shows a second successive rise in shopping visits across the UK, after First Secretary of State Dominic Raab MP warned any change to the social distancing rules would risk a second peak of the coronavirus.

But the data also shows Nottinghamshire folk are on message as retail has continued to see a big drop off in activity at 80 per cent below normal levels.

Nottinghamshire people are, however, finding parks and green spaces less easy to avoid with the usage rate compared to normal now down by only 33 per cent, as compared to 36 per cent the week before and 58 per cent initially.

Mr Raab, continuing to stand in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the UK has not reduced the rate of infection of Covid-19 enough to allow strict measures to be lifted.

He said: "The very clear advice we have received is that any change to our social distancing measures now would risk a significant increase in the spread of the virus.

"That would threaten a second peak of the virus, and substantially increase the number of deaths.

“It would undo the progress made to date, and as a result, would require an even longer period of the more restrictive social distancing measures."

Mr Raab added that there was ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ but right now the country was at a ‘delicate and dangerous stage of this pandemic’ and urged UK citizens to be patient a while longer.