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21.12.2020
New form of SARS-CoV2 pushes London to tighten restrictions in south-east
Camille Gevaudan
Pandemic »Christmas is approaching, and London is back under cover. The south-east of the United Kingdom returned to lockdown yesterday with a ban on spending Christmas Eve outside the maximum alert zone, a ban on foreign travel and a closure of all non-essential shops.
The reason for this new turn of the screw, when the country came out of only four weeks of confinement in early December? A new form of the virus, announces the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Cases of contamination are soaring, “caused by a new variant of the virus” which “seems to spread more easily and could be up to 70% more contagious than the previous strain”, justified the head of the British government on Saturday. “It spreads very quickly in this
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