Containment, third edition.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday evening the return to "containment" of all of England to fight against the spread of the new variant of the more contagious coronavirus.
This new confinement, as strict as that put in place in the spring, provides for the closure of schools and must last, if conditions allow, until mid-February, announced the head of government in a televised address.
Containment will be in effect from Wednesday, but schools will have to close on Tuesday.
Non-essential businesses, along with bars and restaurants, will also be closed, and Britons encouraged not to go out except for compelling reasons.
Professional sports competitions, and in particular the Premier League, will however continue.
Hopes linked to vaccines
This announcement comes a few hours after that, launched by Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, of a re-containment in Scotland from midnight Tuesday, for the same reasons, until the end of January.
With more than 75,000 dead, the United Kingdom is one of the countries in Europe most bereaved by Covid-19 and the trend has worsened in recent weeks.
The number of daily positive cases has exceeded the 50,000 threshold for several days.
Hospitals are already inundated with Covid-19 patients, more numerous than at the worst of the first wave in the spring.
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