ByJackie Salo

https://nypost.com/2021/01/03/boris-johnson-covid-lockdowns-probably-going-to-get-tougher/

January 3, 2021 | 9:44am | UpdatedEnlarge Image

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris JohnsonAP

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday that COVID-19 lockdown measures there are “probably going to get tougher” since the country needs to be “realistic” about the alarming spread of a new,more contagious strainof coronavirus.

Johnson said that there are “obviously a range of tougher measures that we would have to consider” as each region remains under a different tier of lockdown.

“What we are doing now is using the tiering…