direct to your inboxBoris Johnson has announced another national lockdown as the new coronavirus variant spreads rapidly across the country.In a televised address on Monday (January 4), the Prime Minister said the new strain - which is 50 to 70 per cent more transmissible - was spreading in a "frustrating and alarming" manner."As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic," he said.Mr Johnson went on to announce that the government is again instructing people to stay at home and must only leave for limited reasons.He did suggest that England could "steadily" move out of lockdown from mid-February.Urging cautious optimism he said: "If our understanding of the.
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