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England’s ‘freedom day’ marred by soaring cases and isolation chaos

London | Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “freedom day”, ending more than a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England, was marred on Monday by surging infections, warnings of supermarket shortages and his own forced self-isolation.

Mr Johnson’s bet that he can get one of Europe’s largest economies firing again because so many people are now vaccinated marks a new chapter in the global response to the coronavirus.

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