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The UK’s health secretary, Savid Javid, is speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show this morning, and has just been asked by Nick Robinson if the UK “will get Christmas this year”.
Javid replied:
Of course we get Christmas
We aren’t, I’m not anticipating any more lockdowns. I think it’d be irresponsible for any health minister around the world to take take everything off the table, but you know I just don’t see how we get to another lockdown.”
Sri Lanka is facing food shortages with customers in state-run supermarkets reporting long queues for items such as rice, sugar, lentils and milk powder, the BBC is reporting.
The government has denied there are shortages. It says that the strict controls on the supply of essential goods imposed on 30 August by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was needed to prevent traders hoarding food items and control inflation.
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