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EU Leaders Warn of Tougher Lockdowns, Threat of New Strains Bloomberg 1/22/2021 Viktoria Dendrinou, Jonathan Stearns and Ian Wishart © Photographer: Olivier Hoslet/AFP/Getty Images European Council President Charles Michel (L) chairs a video conference meeting of the members of the European Council focused on the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic, in Brussels, on January 21, 2021. (Bloomberg) European leaders painted a bleak picture of the continent’s health emergency, warning that mutant coronavirus strains will result in longer and potentially stricter lockdowns with no clear sense of when they may end. Governments across the EU are grappling again with rising numbers of infections and deaths, and leaders used a video call to demand drug companies ramp up vaccine production and meet their commitments for delivering Covid-19 shots. They also renewed pleas for citizens to avoid non-essential travel both within and across the bloc’s borders.

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