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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Local lockdowns, busy beaches and an explosion in Beirut

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

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Some 2.7 million people in Greater Manchester and parts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, where many Muslims live, were put under tighter restrictions on the eve of Eid al-Adha. Wedding receptions, gambling in casinos and eyebrow-threading continued to be banned when the government decided to ‘squeeze the brake pedal’ to control coronavirus, in the words of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister.

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