which again threaten to overwhelm the country's medical services, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled a new scheme under which the nation will be divided into three risk tiers, depending on the level of Covid-19 prevalence.
"This is not how we want to live our lives, but this is the narrow path we have to tread between the social and economic trauma of a full lockdown and the massive human, and indeed economic cost of an uncontained epidemic," Prime Minister Johnson told MPs in an emergency statement to Parliament in London on Monday night.
After a lull during the summer months, the number of Covid-19 infections in Britain has started rising in early September, and now runs at around 15,000 new daily infections, the highest figures recorded since the pandemic started early this year.
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