This week, England and Scotland were plunged into new national lockdowns, and London's mayor declared a "major incidents" as hospitals were overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.
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The UK's COVID-19 death toll is now higher than the number of British civilians killed during World War II.
Most of these deaths happened during the Blitz, which was a bombing campaign perpetrated by Nazi Germany over London between September 1940 and 1941. According to parliament figures, 40,000 civilians died during that seven-month period.
The Nazis had also killed hundreds of thousands of British military members, as well as millions of other civilians and military members around the world, including around 6 million Jewish people.
Johnson said that the UK will have offered a vaccine to 14 million of the country's most vulnerable people by mid-February, which would allow the government to then start considering lifting restrictions.
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