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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday that London and South East England will return to lockdown Starting tomorrow, Sunday, to try to stop a rise in covid-19 infections, attributed to a new strain discovered there.
“It appears that this spread is fueled by a new variant of the virus”, which is transmitted “much more easily”, declared the prime minister in a press conference.
“Nothing indicates that it is more deadly or that causes a more severe form of the disease ”or that reduces the effectiveness of vaccines, he added.
The inhabitants of the capital and the southeast of the country, already subjected to significant restrictions, will be subject to a new alert level, fourth and highest.
Thus, people will have to stay at home and businesses considered “non-essential” may not open.
The pubs, restaurants and museums in those two areas have been closed since last weekend.
All the travel outside that area, either within the national territory or to go abroad, will be prohibited.
In the areas governed by the maximum alert, meetings between members of different households cannot be held and in the rest of the areas they will have to be held in a single day.
The United Kingdom is the country in Europe hardest hit by the pandemic along with Italy, with more than 67,000 deaths. Added to this, it has already exceeded the threshold of 2 million cases.
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