More parts of England will join London in the toughest tier of CCP virus restrictions from Boxing Day with the new strain “spreading at a dangerous rate,” the UK health secretary announced on Wednesday. Nearly all of the southeast corner of the country will be in tier four one minute after Christmas Day ends, as the counties of Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, the remaining parts of Essex, Surrey, and Hampshire are added to the list. “Just as we’ve got a tiered system in place that was able to control this virus, we’ve discovered a new, more contagious virus variant, that is spreading at a dangerous rate,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. “We know that tier three is not enough to control the new variant.” Speaking at a Downing Street press conference on Dec. 23, Hancock said that cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus had risen by 57 percent in the last …
Government Expands Lockdown Across Southeast England to Stem New CCP Virus Strain
December 23, 2020
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