Closing time: UK pubs must shut early as COVID cases surge

LONDON (AP) — British pubs will have to close early and people who fail to obey quarantines face still fines under new lockdown restrictions to curb a surging wave of new coronavirus infections. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce new measures on Tuesday. It comes a day after the U.K.’s chief medical officers raised the nation’s COVID-19 alert level, saying the virus is in general circulation and spreading fast. The prime minister’s office says that starting T