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The government was “forced into retreat” over “local lockdowns” when it updated advice for eight areas in England worst-hit by the Indian coronavirus variant, the Daily Telegraph says. It adds that a “Whitehall blame game erupted” after ministers “failed to pass on the new advice” – which asked people not to meet indoors or travel unnecessarily – to local leaders. One insider tells the paper it was the Department of Health and Social Care’s responsibility.