Amid a third surge of COVID-19 in Europe, likely fueled by holiday gatherings and made worse by a more transmissible UK coronavirus variant (B117), Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson today announced a new lockdown, following recent announcements by Ireland and Scotland.Cases in the region continued to soar, with Britain today reporting a new record daily high of 58,784 new cases, according to Public Health England, and Ireland reporting a single-day high of 6,110 cases.UK locks downThe new UK lockdown, the country's third, is in effect until at least the middle of February, according to the BBC.
Johnson warned the weeks ahead will be the country's hardest, as the more transmissible variant of the virus spreads across the country.The new