Boris Johnson Extends Lockdown to Much of England to Curb Virus
- Essex, Oxfordshire among counties moving into highest Tier 4
- Move comes as daily cases surge the most since pandemic began
A Coronavirus Tier 4 Stay Home poster near King's Cross railway station in London, U.K., on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed tougher regulations across a large swath of England in an effort to stamp down on the mutant strain of coronavirus that’s spreading quickly across the country.
Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, most of Hampshire and the remainder of Essex will now face the strictest rules in the government’s 4-tier system, from 00:01 a.m. on Dec. 26, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday in a press conference.