UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced England will be put into a new national lockdown from the early hours of Wednesday, ditching the local tiered system, which he says has failed to hold back a surge of the new CCP virus variant. Johnson’s announcement came on the day that the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine started in the UK. The government has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine—enough to potentially inoculate the whole country. Johnson laid the blame for the failure of previous measures on the emergence of a new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variant, which he said has a 50 to 70 percent faster rate of transmission. “With most of the country under extreme measures, it’s clear we need to do more together to bring it under control while our vaccines are rolled out,” Johnson told the nation in a televised address on Jan. 4. “In …