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New UK lockdown issued until mid-February to combat fast-spreading COVID-19 strain

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LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday a new national lockdown for England until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus, even as Britain ramped up its vaccination program by becoming the first nation to start using the shot developed by Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca.Johnson said people must stay at home again, as they were ordered to do so in the first wave of the pandemic in March, this time because the new virus variant was spreading in a "frustrating and alarming" way."As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from COVID than at any time since the start of the pandemic," he said.Under the new rules, which are set to come into effect as.

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