coronavirus restrictions Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus that is believed to spread more quickly.Northern Ireland went into a six-week lockdown and in Wales, restrictions that were relaxed for Christmas Day were also re-imposed.
Ontario confirms Canada’s 1st known cases of U.K. coronavirus variant The number of people under England’s top level of restrictions — Tier 4 — increased by six million on Saturday to 24 million people overall, around 43 per cent of England’s population.
The region included London and many of its surrounding areas.No indoor mixing of households is allowed, and only essential travel permitted.