England’s ‘freedom day’ marred by soaring cases and isolation chaos

Britain has the seventh highest death toll in the world, 128,708, and is forecast to soon have more new infections each day than it did at the height of a second wave of the virus earlier this year.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘freedom day’ ending over a year of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England was marred on Monday by surging infections, warnings of supermarket shortages and his own forced self-isolation.