Daily Mirror – ‘New variant crisis – wary Christmas’
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‘New variant crisis – wary Christmas’
Professor Chris Whitty’s plea for caution this Christmas has made the front of the Daily Mirror. “Wary Xmas” is how the papers sums up the advice issued by Whitty, who the paper says “begged” festive revellers to only socialise with those who “really matter” just hours after the UK saw its highest number of daily Covid cases since the start of the pandemic.
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