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  • the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.

  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lock down to contain a surgeon cove in 19 cases that threatens to overwhelm parts of the health system before a vaccine program reaches a critical mass.

  • Johnson said a new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus, first identified in the United Kingdom and now present in many other countries, was spreading at great speed, and immediate action was needed to slow it down.

  • It's clear that we need to doom or together to bring this new variant under control while our vaccines are rolled out in England.

  • We must therefore go into a national lock down, which is tough enough to contain this variant, Johnson added.

  • This about the new lock down measures You may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials to work if you absolutely cannot work from home to exercise to seek medical assistance, such as getting a co vid test or to escape domestic abuse.

  • Johnson said that if the vaccine rollout went as planned and the number of deaths responded to the lock down measures as expected, it should be possible to start moving out of lock down by the middle of February.

  • However, he urged caution about the timetable and appealed toe everyone to comply with the rules.

  • Britain's economy suffered a historic crash between April and June of last year as swaths of businesses were shuttered by the first lock down and the new lock down is also expected to put a strain on the economy.

the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.

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