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St. Pancras station in London on Sunday, as people waited to board final trains out of the capital before a new, stricter lockdown.Credit...Stefan Rousseau/Press Association, via Associated Press
A worrying virus variant in Britain
European countries began closing their borders to travelers from the United Kingdom a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a lockdown on London and most of England’s southeast. The British leader said the restrictions were necessary to curb a new, faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus.