UK COVID-19

• Boris Johnson to be fined for COVID-19 lockdown parties

  British police said it would issue at least another 30 fines for people who attended gatherings in Boris Johnson's offices and residence in breach of COVID-19 lockdown rules.

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  Apr 12, 2022
  
• U.K. police now investigating COVID-19 lockdown parties at Downing Street

  London police is probing several events at Downing Street because they met the force's criteria for investigating the “most serious and flagrant” breaches of COVID-19 rules.

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  Jan 25, 2022
  
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• Boris Johnson fights to shore up support against leadership challenge over lockdown parties

  Johnson has repeatedly apologized for a series of gatherings held by government staff amid COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, and said that he didn't know about many of the events.

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  Jan 19, 2022
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• Boris Johnson denies lying over ‘bring your own booze’ lockdown parties

  “Nobody told me that what we were doing was against the rules,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told British broadcasters on Tuesday.

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  Jan 18, 2022
• Omicron strains U.K. health services, but no new measures to slow spread: PM Johnson

  The highly transmissible Omicron variant has sent Great Britain's daily new caseload soaring over Christmas and the New Year, officials indicate.

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  Jan 3, 2022
• U.K. health officials build up hospital capacity to prepare for Omicron surge

  The United Kingdom reported a record 183,037 confirmed new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, 32 per cent more than the previous day.

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  Dec 30, 2021
• U.K. joins Canada, U.S. in tightening travel restrictions amid Omicron spread

  Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the new rules will apply from 4 a.m. London time Tuesday.

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  Dec 4, 2021
• Fully vaccinated Canadians excluded from new U.K. quarantine exception rules

  The U.K. announced Wednesday that fully vaccinated travellers in the U.S. or Europe will not have to quarantine on arrival to the country.

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  Jul 28, 2021
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• Is England lifting COVID-19 measures too soon — and what can Canada learn?

  Experts aren't sure that removing restrictions will work out well for the U.K., even if COVID-19 deaths have looked stable recently.

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  Jul 12, 2021
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• Britain greenlights world’s first trial exposing human volunteers to COVID-19

  The trial, due to start within a month, will see up to 90 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 30 exposed to the smallest amount of the virus needed to cause infection.

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  Feb 17, 2021