That abrupt decision, announced in Parliament by the health minister, Matt Hancock, will close pubs and restaurants in London, effective Wednesday. After that pause, London and the other affected regions would presumably go back under tighter restrictions. “They should cancel Christmas mixing,” said Devi Sridhar, chair of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh. In Enfield, in north London, infections rose 74% last week over the week before. Germany, like Britain, had planned to relax restrictions around Christmas; instead, it made them stricter.

Source: bd News24 December 15, 2020 05:48 UTC