London's Metropolitan Police said that it would take action against those who "make reckless decisions that risk lives. Wales introduced a strict lockdown from Sunday, while Scotland has banned travel to and from other UK regions for Christmas. Both Scotland and Northern Ireland will enter fresh lockdowns on December The UK hopes to reach a figure of half a million vaccinations over the weekend, the health minister said.
She said that scientists in November found the new strain was behind a cluster of cases in Kent and spreading into London and Essex and informed the government on December Public Health England then again notified the government on Friday when modelling revealed the full seriousness of the new strain, she said. She confirmed the figure given by Johnson that the new virus strain could be 70 percent more transmissible while saying this was an initial figure.
Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, said Saturday that the new strain "contains 23 different changes," including to the way the virus binds to human cells and enters cells. London Mayor Sadiq Khan told Sky News that London now has the same number of inpatients with the virus as during the peak of the first wave in April. Cases have also grown rapidly among those aged 10 to 19, he said. Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told the Observer weekly that "if this new variant is behind the increase in this age group, then that is a big worry.
The grave situation prompted widespread criticism of the prime minister for promising last week not to "cancel Christmas. But that uncertainty should have been enough for the PM to see that then was the time to call off Christmas," wrote The Sunday Mirror weekly. Labour Leader Keir Starmer said in a video statement: "We have a prime minister who is so scared of being unpopular that he is incapable of taking tough decisions until it is too late.
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