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Europe Again Considers Whether to Lock Down Amid Coronavirus

Jamie Dettmer

   "Liverpool is full of the kind of people who go out on a Monday, and
   couldn't care less about Tuesday morning," George Harrison, lead
   guitarist of the Beatles, once said of his hometown.

   But they won't be doing that next week -- and are unlikely to be doing
   so in the foreseeable future, possibly for as long as six months.

   Liverpudlians, more often known as Scousers, a reference to a cheap
   stew eaten by the city's seafarers in the 19th century, have been
   placed in the highest tier of a new, tough pandemic lockdown system
   announced Monday by Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson.

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