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London faces tightest restrictions; sees new virus variant

by Sylvia Hui
| December 14, 2020 10:06 AM

LONDON (AP) — London and its surrounding areas will be placed under Britain's highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said Monday, adding that a new variant of the virus may be to blame for the spread.

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