Supreme Court justices will receive vaccine

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown in England to slow down the spiral in new cases of Covid-19 on the same day the U.K. started the rollout of AstraZeneca’s vaccine.

The increase in cases is likely fueled by a new and more transmissible variant of the virus that was first detected in England in November.