Driving the news: Fresh off imposing a new lockdown — something he’d vowed not to do — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday that the current spike could ultimately be “twice as bad” as Britain’s brutal spring.
- “We could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day," he warned.
- Starting Thursday, bars, restaurants and non-essential businesses across England will be closed. International travel will be banned, as will the mixing of multiple households indoors.
- As in most of Europe, schools will stay open.
- The new measures are slated to last until Dec. 2, but Johnson conceded today that they could be extended.
The latest: Austria also announced a lockdown on Saturday, while restaurants, movie theaters and gyms will be closed in most of Greece starting tomorrow. Belgium is also locking down.
There is less horrifying news elsewhere.
- Israel was the first country to impose a second nationwide lockdown, but it appears to be working despite less harsh restrictions and some flouting of the rules, WSJ notes.
- Case counts fell swiftly and dramatically, starting just 10 days after the lockdown was imposed.
In India, cases and deaths have been consistently in decline since a mid-September peak.
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