Pandemic: new restrictions in England and Scotland

Publié le 5 janvier 2021Mis à jour le 5 janvier 2021

Britain re-enters sweeping lockdown

Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a strict new national lockdown that will remain until at least the middle of February, as Britain’s race to vaccinate its population risked being overtaken by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus.

Schools and colleges in England will close their doors and shift to remote learning. Mr. Johnson appealed to Britons to stay home for all but a few necessary purposes, including essential work and buying food and medicine.

The new, highly transmissible variant of the virus has taken hold in London and southeastern England, prompting an alarming spike in case numbers, to close to 60,000 a day, and putting hospitals under acute pressure.

Scotland first: The first announcement of a full-scale lockdown came from Scotland, where the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has consistently moved further and faster to try to tame the pandemic.

The U.S. distribution of vaccines has descended into turmoil, with federal, state and local officials blaming each other for botched logistics and funding shortfalls. In New York City, roughly 110,000 people out of more than eight million have received the first of two doses necessary to help prevent serious cases of the disease.

(source: New York Times)

Covid-19: plus de 60.000 nouveaux cas détectés en 24 heures au Royaume-Uni, un record

Alors que le premier ministre Boris Johnson a annoncé hier un reconfinement total du pays, le nouveau variant du virus continue de se propager à toute vitesse.

C’est du jamais vu depuis le début de l’épidémie. Le Royaume-Uni a enregistré 60.916 nouvelles contaminations au coronavirus en 24 heures, le plus haut nombre de nouveaux cas jamais détectés à ce jour. 830 personnes sont décédées, portant le nombre total de personnes mortes suite à une infection au Covid-19 à 76.305 dans le pays.

(source: le Figaro)