The campus is set to become the largest dedicated hub for AI and technology companies in the Middle East and North Africa
The British government on Wednesday said huge swathes of England would be placed under its strictest Covid-19 restrictions as a highly infectious virus variant sweeps the country, pushing the number of cases to a record level.
Britain reported almost 40,000 new infections as the mutated variant of the coronavirus, which could be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than the original, causes the number of cases and hospital admissions to soar.
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The number of recorded deaths - 744 - was also the highest figure since April.
"Against this backdrop of rising infections, rising hospitalizations and rising numbers of people dying from coronavirus, it is absolutely vital that we act," health minister Matt Hancock told a media briefing. "We simply cannot have the kind of Christmas that we all yearn for."
On Saturday, tight social mixing restrictions measures were brought in for London, southeast England and Wales while plans to ease curbs over Christmas across the nation were either dramatically scaled back or scrapped altogether.
Hancock said from Dec. 26, many more parts of southern England would be also be added to the highest level of social mixing restrictions, joining the 16 million already in Tier 4, while other areas across the country currently in lower tiers would also face tighter curbs.
The governments in Scotland and Northern Ireland have already announced that nearly everyone living in those countries would be subjected to the highest level of restrictions after Christmas.
Hancock said there was on average 1909 Covid hospital admissions a day, with 18,943 people currently in hospital with the coronavirus, levels not seen since the peak of the first outbreak in April.
The campus is set to become the largest dedicated hub for AI and technology companies in the Middle East and North Africa
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This inclusive community service is available daily on Al Hamriya Beach from 6.00am to sunset