//UK cancels Christmas gatherings, imposes higher-level restrictions as virus spreads rapidly

UK cancels Christmas gatherings, imposes higher-level restrictions as virus spreads rapidly

Families must cancel their Christmas gatherings and most shops have to close in London and much of southern England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday as he imposed a new, stricter level of coronavirus restrictions on the region to curb rapidly spreading infections. Johnson said Saturday that the capital and other areas in southern England currently under Tier 3, the highest level of coronavirus restrictions,