Nightclubs were allowed to open for the first time in almost 18 months, and from London to Liverpool, thousands of people danced the night away at “Freedom Day” parties starting at midnight. “I’m absolutely ecstatic,” clubgoer Lorna Feeney said at Bar Fibre in the northern England city of Leeds. Soon, unmasked clubgoers dancing to a live band’s rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” filled the floor. Cases topped 50,000 per day last week for the first time since January. “That’s the perfect mixing vessel for the virus to spread and to even generate new variants,” he said.

Source: ABC News July 19, 2021 14:37 UTC