<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwAV4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson" id="mwAV8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> put the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" id="mwAWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> into its first national lockdown in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19" id="mwAWE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a>.<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_23#cite_note-9" id="mwAWI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWM">[9]</span></a></sup>
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