UK reports spike in COVID deaths, hospitalizations
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People ride in a bike taxi near Leicester Square in London, Thursday, Dec. 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People queue, wearing masks against the coronavirus, outside a theatre for a performance of Les Miserables in London, Tuesday, Dec. 28.POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a Covid vaccination centre at the Rainbow Pharmacy in the Open University Campus, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Wednesday Dec. 29.PA VIA AP
Construction workers at work building a Nightingale 'surge hub' at St George's Hospital, in south west London, Thursday Dec. 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shoppers, some wearing face masks to guard against COVID-19, pack Oxford Street in London, Monday, Dec. 27.POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a Covid vaccination centre at the Rainbow Pharmacy in the Open University Campus, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Wednesday Dec. 29.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pedestrians wearing masks against the coronavirus walk past a theater that has cancelled is performances of Mary Poppins due to COVID-19, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 28.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People queue, wearing masks against the coronavirus, outside a theatre for a performance of Les Miserables in London, Tuesday, Dec. 28.POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a Covid vaccination centre at the Rainbow Pharmacy in the Open University Campus, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Wednesday Dec. 29.PA VIA AP
People walk in the street in Soho in London, Thursday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Women walk through Chinatown in Soho in London, Tuesday, Dec. 28.PA VIA AP
Ghadeer Mahar grimaces as she is given a vaccination at a COVID-19 booster vaccination centre at Hampden Park vaccination centre in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday Dec. 29.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man wearing a face mask to guard against COVID-19 looks at the window display of a jewellery store on Oxford Street in London, Monday, Dec. 27.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shoppers wearing face masks to guard against COVID-19 walk along Oxford Street in London, Monday, Dec. 27.PA VIA AP
A sign saying lateral flow coronavirus tests are out of stock is displayed in a pharmacy window in London, Thursday Dec. 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shoppers wearing face masks to guard against COVID-19 walk past a sale poster covering a window of department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London, Monday, Dec. 27.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shoppers, some wearing face masks to guard against COVID-19, walk along Oxford Street in London, Monday, Dec. 27.PA VIA AP
A sign saying lateral flow coronavirus tests are out of stock is displayed in a pharmacy window in London, Thursday Dec. 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Women wearing face masks to guard against COVID-19 walk along Regent Street in London, Monday, Dec. 27.