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Boris refuses to rule out THIRD national lockdown as tough curbs needed to stop mutated Covid ‘running out of control’

BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out a third national lockdown after Christmas. 

The PM yesterday warned tougher restrictions could be needed to keep a mutant coronavirus strain “running out of control” in the New Year. 

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, SAGE advisers have warned that the UK needs to speed up the rollout of a vaccine to a staggering two million Brits a week and maintain a national lockdown throughout January to avoid thousands of deaths.

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Without tighter controls and an acceleration of the vaccine programme, the country risks suffering more deaths in the first half of 2021 than the whole of 2020, according to analysis from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The paper, which is yet be peer reviewed, concluded that the new variant was around 56 per cent more transmissible than existing variants.

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Researchers claim 90 per cent of all cases in the UK could be linked to the new strain by mid-January, the reports.

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