REPORTS suggest a second national lockdown could be imposed by prime minister Boris Johnson.

It comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country and in Dorset, where 193 cases were recorded in the 24 hours leading up to 4pm on October 30.

And here’s what Daily Echo readers think about a potential second lockdown:

Yes and it needs to be strict this time. The less people moving anywhere will mean the virus cannot move on either. Let's do this so we can all get our lives back.

No, it didn’t work the first time. Keep the old and vulnerable safe indoors, and everyone else can keep businesses and the economy going.

I am sorry to say but no. We need to get on with our lives, lockdown will only delay something that will happen anyway. The best way is to protect the most vulnerable people. All the rest going back to normal life, keeping some guidelines in place to be safer.

Absolutely yes. Please don’t delay any longer. I don’t want to see another mother, father, son or daughter struggling to breathe. I don’t want to learn that elective operations were cancelled.

As has happened before lockdown would cause irreparable harm to the economy and result in more deaths from other illnesses than from Covid. It is like burning down your house to get rid of a wasps’ nest.

No point if the schools, colleges and unis are staying open that’s where the cases are rising.

Yes, we need it fast but this time stricter. Nobody should go to work, absolutely no one unless they work for hospitals and supermarkets as they are very. Yes, it sounds awful but we need to stop this virus, too many lives have been lost already.

What's the point? The figures went down but when everything opened again the figures went back up. We are just delaying the inevitable. If everyone used common sense, we wouldn't be in this mess now.

We do I think but more important is people following the rules and if they don't the police and maybe the army must act firmly.

Yes, we need to lock down, because our NHS cannot rely on people using common sense alone. The rates are rising and soon the pressure on the hospitals is going to be higher than before. Many nurses and doctors I know are seeing an alarming rise in the elderly and vunerable in places like care homes. We all need to pull together as a country to get this gone, everyone needs to take responsibility for this to ever go.

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