About 23,000 people have died since mid-September, bringing the official toll to just short of 65,000.
Restrictions will be temporarily eased across the UK from December 23 to December 27 so that three households can form a "bubble" and legally mix indoors. The sharpest rises are in south Wales, London and parts of England's east and south-east. These were the areas that had some of the lowest infection rates during the national lockdown which ended on December 2."In countries like Sweden, where nearly all the intensive care beds in Stockholm are currently in use; Germany, where they have had to announce tougher restrictions over the weekend; and the Netherlands who today have announced further measures.
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