THE EU AND THE UK STILL TRY TO BREAK POST BREXIT LINKS
The new restriction prohibits giant teams from meeting socially indoors and outdoors. It will not apply to schools, workplaces or weddings, funerals and sporting occasions considered through COVID, the BBC reported.
Hancock also said pubs and restaurants will be legally required to take customers’ touch data for the purposes of the government’s testing and traceability program.
The UK government said stricter restrictions were needed after the number of laboratory-confirmed positive cases reached nearly 3,000 on Sunday. The figure fell to 2,460 on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce more main points later on Wednesday.
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The other nations of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, have not followed suit, they also have their own limits when it comes to meetings.
The UK has the number of virus deaths in Europe, with nearly 41,600 deaths within 28 days of the positive test. It is idea that the actual number is much higher because the government’s count does not come with those who died untested.
The increase in cases in the UK continues to increase sharply in cases in Spain and France, any of whom have noticed an increasing number of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized since the restrictions are loosening. Spain recorded an average of 8,800 new cases in line with the day over the weekend, and France recorded more than 5,000 cases consistent with the day.
Spain has the first country in Western Europe to overcome 500,000 positive infections in total and has a death toll of 29,594, according to a johns Hopkins University account. France has a total of 373,718 cases and 30,770 deaths.
The Czech Republic has also faced a sharp increase in instances of novel coronaviruses with a record 1,164 on Tuesday, its fitness ministry said. The country has reported 29,877 cases since the start of the pandemic, with 441 deaths.
Prague’s fitness government has already imposed new restrictive measures which, in turn, force them to wear masks and establish curfews in bars, restaurants and nightclubs.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 testing in Sweden has reached the lowest rate since the start of the pandemic, Reuters reported. Of the 120,000 tests conducted last week, just over 1,300 were
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Sweden has been harshly criticized for its strategy of avoiding a total lockdown, while the death toll was higher this year: more than 5,800 have died in the country, more than the death toll in neighboring Nordic countries like Denmark, which reported 628.
The Associated Press contributed to the report.