Correspondent in London
Boris Johnson is known for his startling metaphors and comparisons.
It is not certain that the one used to explain the specificity of the kingdom in the face of the coronavirus has been tasted in Berlin and Rome.
In announcing new restrictions to stem the rebound of the epidemic, the British Prime Minister estimated that the higher transmission rate than in Germany or Italy was explained by the fact that his people were, him, "in
love with freedom ”
… The London system would therefore be no less effective: the population would just be less inclined to
“ obey the rules ”.
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These freedoms so dear to the British will therefore once again have to be cut back and the rules reinforced.
The most bereaved country in Europe with nearly 42,000 dead, the United Kingdom is currently seeing contaminations "
double every seven days"
, the rate of reproduction of the virus (the average number of people infected for an infected person) is now between 1.1 and 1.4.
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