{"id":56107,"date":"2020-12-21T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56107"},"modified":"2020-12-21T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:29:17","slug":"new-covid-mutation-is-out-of-control-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56107","title":{"rendered":"New Covid Mutation Is \u2018Out of Control\u2019 in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belgium and the Netherlands suspend travel from the UK as authorities assess impact of fast-spreading new virus variant.<\/section>\n
Out of Control\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock\u00a0\u00a0warns a new strain of the coronavirus is \u201cOut of Control<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than 16 million Britons are now required to stay at home after a lockdown came into force Sunday in London and southeast England and the government scrapped plans to relax rules on socializing at Christmas.<\/p>\n

The measures to control the fast-spreading new variant of the virus forbid household mixing in those areas and restrict socializing to just Christmas Day across the rest of England. Residents across the country were told to keep to their local areas, and extra police were being deployed at rail stations to stop people traveling out of London.<\/p>\n

\u201cCases have absolutely rocketed, so we\u2019ve got a long way to go,\u201d Hancock told Sky News. \u201cI think it will be very difficult to keep it under control until the vaccine has rolled out.\u201d People in the new Tier 4 areas \u201cshould behave as though they have it,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Race to Block the New Strain<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a race to block the new Covid-19 strain,\u00a0Countries Ban Travel From U.K.<\/a><\/p>\n

Countries across Europe and beyond raced Sunday to stem a more-infectious strain of Covid-19 by banning travel from the U.K., following a British announcement Saturday that it is imposing fresh lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Israel on Sunday were preparing to join the Netherlands and Belgium, which hours earlier had banned passenger air travel from the U.K., while other countries considered similar moves in an effort to prevent a worsening of the pandemic before Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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New Covid Mutation Is \u2018Out of Control\u2019 in the UK Belgium and the Netherlands suspend travel from the UK as authorities assess impact of fast-spreading new virus variant. Out of Control\u00a0 U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock\u00a0\u00a0warns a new strain of the coronavirus is \u201cOut of Control\u201d. More than 16 million Britons are now required to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28817,29011,14648,13390],"class_list":["post-56107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}