LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson said on Friday he hoped that England would not need to
go into a third lockdown after Christmas and follow Wales and
Northern Ireland in imposing the measure to stop the growing
spread of COVID-19.
"Obviously we're hoping very much that we'll be able to
avoid anything like that," Johnson told reporters. "But the
reality is that the rates of infection have increased very much
in the last few weeks."
(Reporting by William James, writing by Michael Holden)
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