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 stated that 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 has said stricter restrictions are 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 is due to 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 meeting limitations.
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 rise in cases in the UK follows a sharp rise in cases in Spain and France, either of which have seen an increase in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since restrictions were eased. Spain has registered an average of 8,800 new instances according to the day during the weekend and France registers more than 5,000 with the day.
Spain is the first Western European country to exceed 500,000 positive infections in total and has a death toll of 29,594, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. France has a total of 373,718 cases and 30,770 deaths.
The Czech Republic has also faced a strong accumulation of new cases of coronavirus, with a record 1164 on Tuesday, its Ministry of Health 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 that 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 the subject of strong complaints for its strategy of avoiding a lockdown entirely, as 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.