영국, 코로나바이러스 변종 확산에 런던 및 주변 '긴급 봉쇄'<br /><br />In the UK, London and southeast England are under a new, emergency lockdown as of Sunday... because of a new variant of COVID19... that's spreading even faster than the original.<br />Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been planning to ease the pandemic restrictions for five days around Christmas but changed course after talks with top officials.<br />Now, households will not be allowed to mix in London or the southeast, and the rest of the country can socialize only on Christmas Day.<br />The new strain of the virus, officials say, accounts for almost 60 percent of cases in London,... where the daily infection rate has nearly doubled in the last week.<br /><br />
