Scottish bishop calls for pause in COVID restrictions on Christmas Day cruxnow.com
A Scottish bishop is calling for a 24-hour lifting of COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings and celebrations on Christmas Day, calling it a “circuit breaker” in the pandemic.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Bishop John Keenan of Paisley said this would be “a break in the war on COVID, just like the pause in the first world war on the Western Front in 1914, when the British and German troops laid down their guns and met in no man’s land to celebrate Christmas.”…
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