PM tells Britons to avoid non-essential travel and contact
Boris Johnson announces series of new measures including 14-day isolation for households with symptoms
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Boris Johnson has urged the British public to take unprecedented peacetime measures, including avoiding all unnecessary contact and travel and staying away from pubs and theatres, following expert modelling which suggests the approach could cut the estimated coronavirus death toll from 260,000 to 20,000.
The prime minister said the disease was now “approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve,” with London in the vanguard. Deaths in the UK rose from 35 to 55 on Monday, with half of diagnosed cases in the capital.
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