Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a delay to the next phase of England's reopening.
New figures from Public Health England indicate that 42,323 cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus have now been confirmed across the U.K., an increase of 240% from last week.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives an update on the coronavirus disease pandemic during a virtual news conference inside 10 Downing Street, in central London, Britain, March 18, 2021.LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a delay of four weeks to the next phase of England's lockdown reopening, amid a surge of the Delta variant of Covid-19 first discovered in India.
Johnson said at a press conference Monday evening that he thought it was sensible to wait just a little longer.
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