UK hospitals stagger as new virus variant takes huge toll

Shealah Craighead / WhitehouseBoris Johnson - United Kingdom Prime Minister, Photo Date: 12/4/19
LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing a long, bleak winter as cold, wet weather and a more contagious variant of coronavirus put unprecedented strain on the nation’s hospitals. Record numbers of patients are waiting 12 hours or more before receiving treatment. That picture forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson to order a third national lockdown that started Tuesday. Everyone in England is requir