London — London, the world’s international financial capital, will enter a tighter Covid-19 lockdown from midnight on Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle a swiftly accelerating surge in coronavirus cases.

The respiratory pandemic, which has killed more than a million people worldwide, is spreading in most parts of Britain, which has an official death toll of 43,155, the highest in Europe...

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