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UK to hold virus crisis talks after France closes border

by Pan Pylas
| December 21, 2020 1:27 AM

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to chair a meeting of the government's emergency committee later Monday after France closed its borders to the U.K. to stem the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus circulating in London and the southeast of England.

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