Calling the availability of two vaccines and the UK’s exit from the EU embrace as of 11pm Thursday, when the Brexit transition period ends, as an “incredible moment,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that He continued to trust the country and the future as it enters 2021.
Johnson released an upbeat New Years message when UK health officials announced another high in the number of new daily deaths and Covid-19 cases: 964 and 55,892, through Thursday night, with 23,813 patients in hospitals and 1,847 of them with fans.
The government launched a public information campaign, asking people to start the New Year at home and not join any outdoor gatherings. Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, described the situation as “bleak, depressing and dangerous.”
Big Ben, which has been under repair since 2017, will come to life at midnight to herald the New Year, but there won’t be any of the iconic fireworks around it that would normally be seen by tens of thousands along the Thames and broadcast on I live millions. across the globe.
‘Covid-19 loves the crowd, cancel parties’ was the key message in a public information campaign on Thursday, urging the British to usher in the New Year at home. Millions more Britons moved into the first Tier 4 Covid-19 alert system with the strictest restrictions on Wednesday night.
Johnson said: “(As) the sun rises tomorrow in 2021, we are certain of those vaccines. He pioneered a UK that is also free to do things differently, and if necessary better, than our friends in the EU. Freedom to make trade agreements around the world ”.
“This is an incredible moment for this country. We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it. Leading both the G7 and the COP 26 climate change summit in Glasgow, AND an open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free-trade global Britain, campaigning for 12 years of quality education for all girls of the world “.
He added: “2021 is the year that we can do it, and I think 2021 is most of all, the year that we will finally do those everyday things that now seem lost in the past. Bathed in a rosy glow of nostalgia, going to pubs, concerts, theaters, restaurants, or simply holding hands with our loved ones in the usual way.
Johnson, however, insisted that the UK is still a long way from that situation and warned that there are “difficult weeks and months ahead”.
Meanwhile, the Brexit deal reached with Brussels last week received royal assent and became law. Various aspects of everyday life are likely to change as new post-Brexit realities unfold.
This will include higher prices in supermarkets and changes in Britons visiting EU member states. There will be a 90 day limit to your stay in any 180 day period, using non-EU citizen queues at airports and immigration officials will ask you to show return tickets and funds for your stay.
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