UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson says country can ‘turn the tide’ in 12 weeks
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Johnson says he is often accused of sounding “unnecessarily boosterish”.
He does not want to strike that note today, he says.
Q: You say you think you can turn the tide in 12 weeks. What does that mean? Does that mean we will be returning to our normal lives?
Johnson says he wants us to get on top of this. At the moment the disease does not seem yet to be responding to the interventions. A combination of the measures taken by the public and better testing will enable us to turn the tide.
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