New variant of COVID-19 causes lockdown in UK

The new UK variant of the corona virus, that causes Covid-19, has caused a new lockdown in UK. Meanwhile many countries stopped flights from UK in the hopes of stopping a spread of the new variant, that seems to be spreading faster than previous variants.

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