Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the Government is dealing with a local outbreak of coronavirus in the East Midlands.
Speaking at the daily briefing on Thursday (June 18), he said "parts of Leicester" had been affected by a local outbreak.
The Health Secretary said the test and trace system had meant local outbreaks were known about.
Matt Hancock said the manual tracing system had helped control local outbreaks in "parts of Leicester" and Kirklees, West Yorkshire, with mobile testing units sent in to help track down positive cases.
He said: "There are these local outbreaks, we've seen them all the way through.
"And we now have the system in place to be able to spot them the best we can and then take that local action.
"It is natural that as the lockdown lifts slightly, we've always said that the next move is for more localised action in order to tackle outbreaks where we find them."
