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| ‘Can’t have Christmas as planned’: BoJo tells London, East & Southeast England to STAY HOME over rapid spread of new Covid strain | ‘Can’t have Christmas as planned’: BoJo tells London, East & Southeast England to STAY HOME over rapid spread of new Covid strain |
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| UK PM Boris Johnson effectively cancelled Christmas for those in London and Southeast England on Saturday, banning Brits from meeting family members and friends from other households, due to the fast-spreading new Covid-19 strain. | |
| “It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you we cannot continue with Christmas as planned. In England, those living in tier-four areas should not mix with anyone outside their own household at Christmas,” Johnson said at a televised press conference on Saturday. | |
| The latest restrictions were made in response to a new version of the coronavirus which allegedly spreads faster, though there is currently no indication that it is any more deadly or immune from the vaccines. | |
| Johnson claimed that the new version “may be up to 70% more transmissible than the old variant,” and that the most cases of it have been recorded in those areas now under Tier 4 restrictions. | |
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