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UK imposes new restrictions for 4 million amid virus spread

by Associated Press
| July 31, 2020 2:27 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s health secretary defended the government’s abrupt re-imposition of restrictions on social life across a swath of northern England on Friday, saying it was important to clamp down quickly on new outbreaks of COVID-19.

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