As a more contagious variant of the coronavirus tears through the country, and as people resist new restrictions, hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge in patients.
The public health threat of the new coronavirus variant has stilled the British prime minister’s critics and offered a chance to redeem past failures.
The public health threat of the new coronavirus variant has stilled the British prime minister’s critics and offered a chance to redeem past failures.
Speaking at a news conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said that 1.3 million people had already been vaccinated, and that he hoped that the most vulnerable could be protected by the vaccine within about six weeks.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced on Monday a strict new national lockdown after the fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus escalated case numbers and was on track to overwhelm the nation’s beleaguered hospitals.
Scotland has declared a national lockdown and, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the nation Monday night, England may soon follow.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson lauded Britain’s approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, and said spiking cases will push more of the country into tighter lockdown restrictions starting Thursday.
Facing record case and hospital numbers and a threatening variant strain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to shut schools and reimpose national restrictions, measures he once decried.
Alan Cowell, a longtime New York Times correspondent, recalls a different Europe, one of currency controls, cumbersome paperwork and burdensome cross-border regulations.
Battling a new coronavirus variant even as they steel themselves for the looming split with the E.U., Britons are feeling profoundly isolated.
Critics say the British prime minister’s penchant for last-minute decisions has complicated the handling of the coronavirus and narrowed the window for scrutiny of any trade deal with the E.U.
Days after saying it would be “inhuman” to end Britain’s plans to relax coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a lockdown in parts of England.
Scientists say the new variant is spreading faster than previous ones, but does not appear to make people sicker.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain would stand by a plan to ease restrictions on gatherings between Dec. 23 and 27, despite rising coronavirus cases.
The prime minister, already facing a tough week with Brexit, risks additional wrath from Conservatives over the closing of pubs and restaurants again.
A 90-year-old former jewelry shop assistant was the first to get a shot, followed, appropriately enough, by a man named William Shakespeare.
With the vaccine rollout and a potential Brexit deal looming, his government has a chance to wash away its reputation for chaos and mismanagement.
Confronted with deserted streets during the pandemic, drivers are turning in their rented black cabs by the hundreds.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, during a visit to the pharmaceutical company Wockhardt, said “if we’re lucky” a coronavirus vaccine could be available for distribution within weeks, but stressed that some restrictions will still be necessary to keep the pandemic under control.
Lawmakers approved new coronavirus restriction rules, but members of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party showed growing opposition to the measures.
Regulators may approve the troubled AstraZeneca vaccine and the American-made Pfizer shot weeks before the U.S. does so.
Some Conservative lawmakers are calling Boris Johnson’s plans to continue restricting most of England’s bars and restaurants “authoritarian.”