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Prime Minister Boris Johnson started his address by saying when the country was fighting the old variant "our collective efforts were working and would have continued to work".

But he says it is “both frustrating and alarming" to see the speed at which the new variant is spreading.

Scientists believe it is between 50% and 70% more transmissible, so people are much more likely to catch the virus and to pass it on, he adds.

Hospitals are also under more pressure from Covid than at any time since start of pandemic, he says.


We must go into a national lockdown - PM

The prime minister adds that given the alarming figures, it had become "clear that we need to do more" to bring the new fast-spreading coronavirus variant "under control" and help the vaccination roll-out in the UK.

He says we must therefore go into a national lockdown, with the government once more telling people to stay at home, except for specific reasons, including essential shopping, to work, if you cannot work from home, to exercise, to seek medical help, and to escape domestic abuse.

He says the government will be advising clinical extremely people to begin shielding again.

Primary and secondary schools must move to remote learning from tomorrow, except for vulnerable children and those of key workers, he adds.

Given this, it is not "fair" for all exams to go ahead this summer, he says.


The prime minister says he "completely understands the inconvenience and stress" the disruption to education will cause parents and pupils.

But he says the government has been doing "everything in our power to keep schools open” because of the importance of education to children’s life chances.

"The problem is not that schools are unsafe for children," he says, adding that children are still very unlikely to be severely affected even by the new variant of Covid.

But he says schools may act as "vectors for transmission", causing the virus to spread between households.


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