Anne Ruston News Today

Hello and welcome. The uk governments chief scientific advisor, sir patrick vallance, has warned that tougher restrictions are likely to be needed in more areas of england to control the new coronavirus variant. It comes as experts from the World Health Organization say theres no evidence that the new variant is more severe than existing strains. Tougher restrictions were brought in for london and parts of southern and Eastern England at the weekend, after existing measures proved unable to cont...

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