LONDON – The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets.
Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths.The U.K. is the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak once more, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is facing questions, and anger, as people demand to know how the country has ended up here — again.Many countries are enduring new waves of the virus, but Britain’s is among the worst, and it comes after a horrendous 2020.
More than 3 million people in the U.K. have tested positive for the coronavirus and 81,000 have died — 30,000 in just the last 30 days.