2020-12-22
Daily Star Front Page 22nd of December 2020
The Daily Star asks, amid the reports of panic buying, who is stockpiling lettuce?
The Daily Star asks, amid the reports of panic buying, who is stockpiling lettuce?
More areas are likely to be moved into Tier 4 restrictions, the Daily Express says, as the new COVID-19 variant continues to spread.
The UK has been placed into quarantine as more than 40 countries around the world ban British travellers after a new mutant strain of COVID-19 took hold, the i says.
The Mirror reports that the new mutated strain of COVID-19 is already in the northern parts of England, threatening to plunge more areas into Tier 4 restrictions.
Scientists have told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he must impose a national lockdown or risk a “human disaster”, amid the new fast-spreading variant of COVID-19, according to The Guardian.
The Telegraph says that Boris Johnson is planning mass testing at ports in an effort to get haulage over the Channel after the UK-French border closed down in Kent on Monday.
Jingle hell is the headline on the Metro, which reports that the new mutant variant of COVID-19 has led to a UK travel ban all over the world.
The Independent writes that the UK has been isolated after more than 40 countries banned travellers from Britain, leaving Boris Johnson in a diplomatic bid to reopen the French border.
Global markets have fallen amid the international alarm over the new COVID-19 variant that has forced dozens of countries to close their borders to the UK, according to the Financial Times.