UK Orders Fresh Total Lockdown Over COVID-19 Second Wave

UK Government has ordered Fresh total lockdown as COVID-19 second wave increases. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has imposed a complete lockdown on UK and whole parts of southeast England. He also told the public across the country to avoid travel, in a desperate attempt to stop a new strain of coronavirus spreading rapidly in the UK.

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According to report by Bloomberg, after emergency talks with his most senior officials on Saturday Johnson cancelled plans to ease pandemic restrictions for five days during the holiday. Household mixing will be banned in London and the south-east and socializing restricted to just Christmas Day across the rest of England.

The premier announced a new Tier 4 will apply in the hot-spot areas around the capital from Sunday, with all non-essential shops closing, millions of people ordered to stay at home and all foreign travel banned except for essential purposes. Johnson urged people across England to “stay local” and not travel far. He promised the new rules will be reviewed on Dec. 30.

“When the virus changes its method of attack we must change our method of defense,” Johnson said at a news conference. “Without action the evidence suggests infections would soar, hospitals would become overwhelmed and many thousands more would lose their lives.”

The dramatic escalation in the government’s pandemic response was triggered by a new strain of the infection that is virtually unique to the UK emerging scientific evidence suggests the new strain can spread significantly more quickly than previous strains in circulation and is behind a huge ravaging spread in the infections recently.

According to government officials, Covid-19 case rates almost doubled in London over the past week, with almost 60% of these infections attributed to the new strain of the virus.