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UK correspondent: Vincent McAviney says it feels like Christmas is cancelled

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Mon, 20 Dec 2021, 10:16am
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UK correspondent: Vincent McAviney says it feels like Christmas is cancelled

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Publish Date
Mon, 20 Dec 2021, 10:16am

A sense of impending doom is hanging over Britain in the build up to Christmas.

More than 12-thousand new Omicron cases are confirmed in the UK, as Covid numbers soar close to 83-thousand.听

That's down from the record highs of the past couple of days, but up week on week.

The Government's Cobra emergency committee sat down about two hours ago.听

UK correspondent Vincent McAviney told Tim Dower there's a feeling Christmas has been cancelled.

鈥淲here I am right now, just off Oxford Street, which is normally,听on any given day,听the busiest shopping street in Europe, well in the build-up to Christmas it鈥檚 absolutely carnage normally, and it is deathly quiet.鈥

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