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What do we know tonight?
PM and senior Cabinet are still holed up discussing new super strain of Covid ripping through South East.
New evidence shows is "frighteningly transmissible" but no evidence yet it will do you any more or less harm - you can just catch it easily.
PM and senior Cabinet are still holed up discussing new super strain of Covid ripping through South East. New evidence shows is "frighteningly transmissible" but no evidence yet it will do you any more or less harm - you can just catch it easily.
Festive bubbles in Capital and Home Counties in serious doubt and travel in and out of the hotspots under threat. But crucially its too late to change the Christmas laws without recalling Parliament - so will have to be done on advice.
PM could go public tomorrow... "this is a live and fluid situation but it's not looking good and we have to act fast."Story online shortly....
A Health source said: "The last 48 hours have changed everything." Sun understands PM spooked by dramatic hike in positive cases in London over the last week. And the new strain is being blamed for a sudden uptick in hospitalisations in the Capital.
And concerns that people are able to catch new strain in faster contact time and despite taking preventive social distancing measures and even wearing PPE... worrying new details here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13520354/travel-restrictions-london-south-east/
