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UK PM: Nothing In Data Suggests Need To Move To COVID-19 Plan B

EUROPE

Answering reporters' questions following his speech to the CBI, UK PM Boris Johnson states that nothing in the UK's COVID-19 data suggests a need to move to the gov'ts 'plan B' on containing the virus.

  • Comes as Austria enters full lockdown, the Netherlands and Belgium have reintroduced some restrictions, and Germany mulls tighter rules.
  • Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, and Croatia have all experienced mass protests and rioting by anti-lockdown activists in the past 24 hours. With winter looming a number of European gov'ts with high COVID-19 hospitalisaion rates could face a very difficult period of reintroducing restrictions against the backdrop of notable public opposition from a vocal section of society.

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