Boris Johnson upends Christmas plans with tighter Covid-19 restrictions
London and southeast England in new higher tier of restrictions
19 December 2020 - 18:37
London — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a tighter set of coronavirus controls on millions of people in Britain on Saturday, telling them to stay home, and drastically scaled back plans to ease restrictions over Christmas.
With the average number of cases in England soaring because of a new, more contagious strain of the virus, Johnson said the government had to take urgent action...
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