UK closes travel corridors. Boris Johnson: "Too many infections", over 86 thousand deaths

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January 15, 2021A new squeeze that will affect Great Britain and all travelers who will arrive from all over the world.

To deal with too many infections, the United Kingdom

on all travelers from whatever country they come from, eliminating all residual exemptions, in addition to the entry ban from South America and Portugal.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement additionally confirms a

for those entering the country, even in the absence of symptoms.

This is a necessity given the still very high number of infections in the country, the prime minister explained, adding that it is necessary to avoid "readmissions" of the virus from abroad and variants such as the Brazilian one. 

With over 86,000 total deaths, in the 24 hours the English variant (more aggressively contagious) of the virus continues to inspire fear and 1,200 deaths and 55,000 infections are recorded.

In detail, the daily deaths are 1,280, while the recorded cases date back to 55,571, although with an absolute daily peak of almost 700,000 tampons.

The alarm remains high in hospitals, overwhelmed with hospitalizations in recent weeks, waiting for the effect of the third national lockdown introduced 10 days ago by the government to be felt.

The only positive note are the anti-covid vaccinations, which began on the island in December and which have now reached 3.2 million in England alone, about 3.5 million in the whole of the United Kingdom: with a pace that reaches over 300 thousand a day.