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Many donned festive hats and costumes as they took to lakes, ponds and the seas around the UK.
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Many donned festive hats and costumes as they took to lakes, ponds and the seas around the UK.
Advertisement Scientists have warned that the whole of England should be put into Tier 4 immediately to stop the spread of the new mutant coronavirus strain that was first detected in Kent. SAGE have said thousands more people will now be infected in the new year, with one of their experts Dr Zubaida Haque today questioning why the government haven't placed the whole country under the toughest restrictions to save lives. She tweeted: 'Given that we surpassed 70,000 #COVID19 deaths in UK on Christmas Day, and there are now more patients with coronavirus in hospital than at any point in t...
Advertisement Millions of people will move into Tier 4 today after those already under the tightest coronavirus restrictions celebrated a Covid Christmas any way they could. Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire will move into Tier 4, created in response to a variant of Covid-19 discovered in the UK, from Saturday. The parts of Essex still in Tier 2, Waverley in Surrey and Hampshire including Portsmouth and Southampton, but with the exception of the New Forest, will also move into the toughest tier. The additional six million going into Tier 4 takes the total number of pe...