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December 20, 2020 People at London’s St Pancras station, waiting to board the last train to Paris before the lockdown deadline. Stefan Rousseau/Getty Images A mutation of the COVID-19 virus that appears to have started in Great Britain as early as September and is more contagious than the original coronavirus has been spreading rapidly throughout England. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced over the weekend that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England would be canceled because of the alarming growth in infections due to the new coronavirus variant, according to the ...

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the infection was “out of control” in Southern England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who described the new variant as 70% more transmissible than the original, ordered tighter restrictions and dropped a much-anticipated relaxation of rules that had been set to kick in across much of England ahead of the holidays. More than 16 million people are now ordered to stay at home in London and southeast England, and socializing elsewhere in the country is now restricted to Christmas Day only. Kulkarni said modeling data found a recent steep rise in COV...