LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday closed down social life in Britain and bought the senior infirm to separate for 12 weeks, increase the battle versus the coronavirus outbreak just as it speeds up towards it peak.
Men in protective suits pretend to clean up the cabinet as part of a stunt for social media as the variety of coronavirus cases (COVID-19) grows all over the world, in London, Britain, March 16,2020 REUTERS/Simon Dawson
Johnson had actually dealt with a backlash after his government took a less strict technique to tackling the infection than nations such as Italy, France and Spain which have actually effectively locked down much of Europe.
In a sharp toughening of Britain’s approach to the break out, Johnson shut down any staying social life worldwide’s fifth largest economy and ordered those over 70 with underlying health problems to separate for 12 weeks from this weekend.
” What we are announcing today is a very significant modification in the way that we desire people to live their lives and I can’t keep in mind anything like it in my life time,” Johnson, 55, said at a news conference in Number 10 Downing Street, flanked by the government’s leading scientist and top doctor.
” I don’t believe there’s truly been anything like it in peacetime and we need to accept