UK Lockdown

• 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
  
• 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
  
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• Hugs and pints indoors: U.K. lays out latest phase of COVID-19 lockdown lifting

  As of May 17, Brits will be allowed to meet up indoors for the first time in months, in groups of up to six people or two full households together.

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  May 10, 2021
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• U.K. sees 60% drop in COVID-19 cases due to vaccines, lockdown

  Researchers at Imperial College London also found that the relationship between COVID-19 infections and deaths is diverging.

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  Apr 8, 2021
• U.K. to ease COVID-19 lockdown, considering vaccine passport options

  ``We set out our road map and we're sticking to it,'' Johnson said during a news conference.

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  Apr 5, 2021
• U.K. to ‘cautiously’ ease lockdown but long wait still ahead for pubs, gyms

  U.K. officials outlined how COVID-19 restrictions will slowly be lifted but cautioned that all reopening dates could be postponed if infections and hospitalizations surge.

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  Feb 22, 2021
• U.K.’s Johnson eyes ‘cautious but irreversible’ path out of lockdown

  Britain has vaccinated more than 15 million people with a first dose and 537,715 with a second dose, the fastest rollout per capita of any large country.

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  Feb 15, 2021
• ‘Race against time’: Worst yet to come for U.K. amid pandemic, PM says

  The death toll in the United Kingdom has been soaring and now stands in excess of 81,000 -- the world's fifth-highest toll -- while more than 3 million people have tested positive.

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  Jan 11, 2021
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• What the COVID-19 variant from South Africa means for pandemic, vaccines

  Some experts are worried that current vaccines will not be effective against the COVID-19 variant called 501Y.V2.

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  Jan 5, 2021
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• U.K. imposes new national lockdown as coronavirus and new variant spread rapidly

  The prime minister said the country is at "a critical moment," with cases rising rapidly in every part of the country.

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  Jan 4, 2021