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Covid: New lockdown for England amid 'hardest weeks'
Everyone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown beginning at midnight, Boris Johnson has announced.
All schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February.
In a televised address, the PM urged people to follow the rules immediately amid surging cases and patient numbers.
He said those in the top four priority groups would receive a first vaccine dose by mid-February.
Speaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson said the weeks ahead would be the "hardest yet".
But he added that he believed the country was entering "the last phase of the struggle".
Scotland earlier issued a stay-at-home order and joined Wales in closing classrooms for most pupils.
Northern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures.
On Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.
A further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.
Those who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.
Support and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.
The government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.
Mr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.
They warned of a "material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed" in several areas over the next 21 days.
Level five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.
NHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, say hospitals are at a "critical point" and that "immediate and decisive action" is needed.
A new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.
Announcing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year."
The new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.
In Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.
Mr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab.
The new target to vaccinate all those in the top four priority groups with at least one dose of a vaccine by mid-February covers everyone in England over the age of 70 and people of any age who are clinically extremely vulnerable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55538937 | |
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| Lockdown 3 on 21:01 - Jan 4 with 317 views | spell_chekker |
Lockdown 2 only finished a couple of weeks or so ago.
That worked well, didn't it? | |
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| Lockdown 3 on 21:26 - Jan 4 with 312 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
Sequels hardly ever turn out better than the original | |
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| Lockdown 3 on 10:39 - Jan 5 with 298 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
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| Lockdown 3 on 11:32 - Jan 5 with 287 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
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| Lockdown 3 on 13:29 - Jan 5 with 281 views | spell_chekker |
Graph showing UK toilet paper sales
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| Lockdown 3 on 13:31 - Jan 5 with 280 views | spell_chekker |
Franny Lee must be coining it in. | |
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| Lockdown 3 on 11:10 - Jan 6 with 263 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
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| Lockdown 3 on 07:59 - Jan 12 with 240 views | spell_chekker |
The word is that a new lockdown will be announced over here on 20th Jan. | |
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| Lockdown 3 on 08:27 - Jan 12 with 234 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
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| Lockdown 3 on 11:33 - Jan 12 with 229 views | Imperial |
The need for a lockdown is clear it is a shame that the use of common sense in applying it has been lost by many politicians and chief constables. | | | |
| Lockdown 3 on 21:40 - Jan 12 with 219 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
Unless you need to travel seven miles to cycle round the Olympic Park. | |
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| Lockdown 3 on 20:52 - Jan 14 with 208 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
Covid-19: France PM Castex announces tighter curfew
French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced a new evening curfew will begin nationally across France starting at 18:00 (17:00 GMT) Saturday.
The move is a tightening of a curfew already in place since December, which restricts movement from 20:00-06:00.
Announcing the measure on Thursday, Mr Castex described the country's situation as "worrying" with infections remaining at a "high plateau".
He also announced new restrictions for people arriving into the country.
All those arriving from outside the EU will now have to test negative for the virus within 72 hours before their travel into France, and then isolate for seven days and test negative again, Mr Castex said.
The border controls are partly to limit the extent to which new mutant strains of the virus spreading abroad can become dominant in France. There is particular concern over the more transmissible variant first detected in the UK - which the French health minister says now accounts for about 1-1.5% of new cases nationally.
"We must do everything to prevent this variant from spreading in France," Health Minister Olivier Veran told a Thursday news conference.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55669172
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| Lockdown 3 on 23:37 - Jan 14 with 203 views | spell_chekker |
Jeez.
6 o'clock's a bit on the early side for curfew. | |
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