UK Ministry of Health ruled out the possibility of a lockdown in the country

It is reported by SkyNews.

The department also stressed that active vaccination of the population will avoid the introduction of a lockdown in the UK. 

Earlier it became known that the variation of the delta strain of coronavirus AY.4.2 spreading in the UK may be 10-15% more infectious than the original version.

In Britain, more than 49 thousand cases of coronavirus were detected per day.