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Police officers wear face masks Monday as they patrol an anti-lockdown demonstration in Parliament Square, in London.
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Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock updates MPs on the areas which will be moved into Tier 3, in the House of Commons, London, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.
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Restaurant staff orgainze tables outside, in Soho, London, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Britain’s health secretary says London and it surrounding areas will be placed under the highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital.
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Resident Annie Innes, 90, receives the Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine at the Abercorn House Care Home in Hamilton, Scotland, Monday Dec. 14, 2020.
England sees ‘exponential’ COVID-19 surge that may be associated with new coronavirus variant
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Lorna Lucas, 81, reacts as she receives the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs in London on Tuesday, Dec. 8, as British health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine. Some people who took COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials reported mild side effects.AP
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LONDON London and its surrounding areas will be placed under Britain’s highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said Monday, adding that a new variant of the virus may be to blame for the spread.
London set for strictest curbs as new virus strain hikes infections
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People walk along London’s busiest commercial area the Oxford Street amid the coronavirus pandemic on Monday. The strictest restrictions start in the British capital on Wednesday.
London and its surrounding areas are going to be under Britain’s highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning on Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said, adding that a new variant of coronavirus may be to blame for the spread.
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government must take swift action after seeing “very sharp, exponential rises” in Greater London and nearby Kent and Essex. He said in some areas cases are doubling every seven days.
LONDON (AP) London and its surrounding areas will be placed under Britain s highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said Monday, adding that a new variant of the virus may be to blame for the spread.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government must take swift action after seeing “very sharp, exponential rises” in Greater London and nearby Kent and Essex. He said in some areas cases are doubling every seven days.
The surge of COVID-19 cases in southern England may be associated with a new variant of coronavirus, Hancock told lawmakers. He said officials are assessing the new strand, but stressed there was nothing to suggest it was more likely to cause serious disease, or that it wouldn’t respond to a vaccine.
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