Soldiers are carrying out coronavirus tests in Leicester as the Government considers keeping the city under lockdown for two more weeks following a spike in cases.
Members of the military are operating a walk-in mobile Covid-19 testing centre at the city's Spinney Hill Park, as residents are encouraged to get tested if they have symptoms.
Leicester may be the first UK location to be subjected to a local lockdown, which would see the current restrictions in place for two weeks after July 4 to control the coronavirus outbreak.
But not everyone is on board with the idea, with the possibility of extended restrictions dividing opinion as the country tries to get back on its feet.
Labour mayor Sir Peter Soulsby told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Frankly it's been intensely frustrating.
"It was only last Thursday that we finally got some of the data we need but we're still not getting all of it and it was only at 1.04am that the recommendations for Leicester arrived in my inbox.
"What they're suggesting is not a return to lockdown, it seems that what they're suggesting is that we continue the present level of restriction for a further two weeks beyond July 4," he continued.
"I've looked at this report and frankly it's obviously been cobbled together very hastily.
"It's superficial and its description of Leicester is inaccurate and certainly it does not provide us with the information we need if we are to remain restricted for two weeks longer than the rest of the country."
But Labour MP for Leicester, Claudia Webbe, believes a local lockdown is necessary for her constituency, where 866 coronavirus cases have been recorded in the past two weeks.
She says there are "significant levels of African and Asian minority ethnic communities" and "significant levels of poverty".
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: "There are significant worries and significant problems in terms of inequalities and high levels of poverty that I'm concerned about.
"That is the context in which this Covid-19 is operating in.
"So I'm very concerned, and I really do believe that where the data allows we need to ensure that we engage in processes to protect lives, and I think we need to go into therefore more localised lockdown to protect lives and ensure that we can address this virus.
"The Government hasn't reassured us. Thus far, the messages and the communication from the Government have been unclear, and it has been difficult, and I really don't understand what communities are meant to follow."
Leicester public health director Ivan Browne was also critical about the level of information given to the city to tackle the outbreak.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Interestingly it's very much around the younger working-age population and predominately towards the east part of our city.
"I don't think at the moment we're seeing a single cause or a single smoking gun on this so we need really try to dig down and find out what is going on and it's likely to be a combination of factors.
"Information has been challenging all the way through this.
"It has definitely been challenging and I think as director of public health we have really been pushing for some time to ask for as complete a data set as possible because that's how we can really effectively start to challenge these things on the ground."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Government was "concerned about Leicester" where there has been a flare-up of coronavirus.
On a visit to a construction site in west London, the Prime Minister said: "We are concerned about Leicester, we are concerned about any local outbreak.
"I want to stress to people that we are not out of the woods yet. We are making these cautious, calibrated steps, we are opening as much of hospitality as we can on July 4, opening as much of the economy as we can - some things, alas, still remain closed until they can become Covid-secure.
"But to make all that possible we have to remain vigilant."
He said the local "whack-a-mole" strategy had worked in Weston-super-Mare and where there had been outbreaks around GP surgeries in London.
"That's the same approach that we will bring to bear in Leicester as well."
