Boris Johnson is expected to make announcements on Monday evening – Stefan Rousseau / AP / SIPA
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will speak this Monday evening on television to announce new restrictions in England faced with soaring cases of
coronavirus , which sparked calls for a strict containment, according to Downing Street.
” The Prime Minister is clear that further steps must now be taken. (…) He will announce them this evening ”, indicated his spokesperson. Scotland confined for one month
Scotland did not wait. The Prime Minister of the country Nicola Sturgeon announced on Monday that the British nation would once again enter a lockdown “similar to that of March” 190, to control the surge in contaminations attributed to the variant of the new coronavirus.
“From midnight and for all of January, you will be legally required to stay at home”, announced the leader during a press conference, citing a “blow” due to the “variant of the virus which spreads quickly”.