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Closing time: UK pubs must shut early as COVID cases surge

by Associated Press
| September 21, 2020 3:06 PM

LONDON (AP) — British pubs will have to close early and people who fail to obey quarantine rules will face stiff fines under new lockdown restrictions to curb a surging wave of new coronavirus infections.

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