Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a lockdown in the United Kingdom Monday as the coronavirus pandemic surged.

“As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from COVID than at any time,” Johnson said in a televised speech. “It’s clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control. In England, we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to combat this variant. That means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.”

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