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Countries tighten restrictions, accelerate vaccine campaigns in response to new COVID-19 strains (Xinhua)    08:20, December 28, 2020 -- Several new COVID-19 strains have been reported recently in different parts of the world, including Britain, South Africa, Nigeria, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan. -- Faced with the new threat, countries around the world have tightened restrictive measures and accelerated the race for vaccines. -- Even if the virus has become a little bit more efficient in spreading, the virus can be stopped, says WHO. BE...

Hospitals have been told to free up every possible bed for growing numbers of Covid patients as it emerged that Boxing Day was one of the London Ambulance Service’s busiest ever days. NHS England has warned that the entire health service will have to stay on its highest state of alert until at least the end of March due to an ongoing influx of patients. In a letter to local NHS bosses on Wednesday, the service’s chief operating officer Amanda Pritchard urged hospitals to mobilise their ‘surge capacity’ as they face soaring infections, staff sickness and longer patient stays.

The disruption caused by the pandemic has left bricks and mortar businesses struggling to shift their products.  Many will cut prices even further as they try to rake in cash to tide them over until spring.  Bargain: Shops in Tier Four areas are losing millions of pounds of sales each week after being forced to close Shops in Tier Four areas are losing millions of pounds of sales each week after being forced to close.  Boxing Day saw a 60 per cent decline in footfall compared with the same day last year, rising to a 76 per cent fall in Tier Four places where non-essential shops are shut, S...

2020-12-28 02:02:24 GMT2020-12-28 10:02:24(Beijing Time) Xinhua English 　　Photo taken on Dec. 21, 2020 shows the empty Westminster Bridge in front of Houses of Parliament in London, Britain. (Xinhua/Han Yan) -- Several new COVID-19 strains have been reported recently in different parts of the world, including Britain, South Africa, Nigeria, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan. -- Faced with the new threat, countries around the world have tightened restrictive measures and accelerated the race for vaccines. -- Even if the virus has become a...

Advertisement More than 90 per cent of councils in England saw their coronavirus outbreaks grow before Christmas, according to official figures that suggest Cumbria could be next area to be plunged into Tier Four when No10 shakes up its local lockdown policies this week. Around 24million people are already living under the draconian stay-at-home orders, with ministers slapping the strict measures on London, the South East and East to control rapidly growing Covid outbreaks. But millions more face being hit with the toughest curbs when officials review the existing four-tier system on Wednesd...