British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday evening the return to
"containment"
of all of England to fight the spread of the new variant of the more contagious coronavirus.
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This new confinement, as strict as the one put in place in the spring, provides for the closure of schools and must last if conditions allow, until mid-February, he announced in a televised address.