⁍ Britain needs to impose a three-week period of national lockdown restrictions immediately to stop cases of COVID-19 spiralling, government scientific adviser Jeremy Farrar said.
⁍ Farrar said current regional measures would not be effective.
⁍ ‘The current tiered restrictions will not bring the transmission rates down sufficiently or prevent the continued spread of the virus,’ he said.
– British health officials are calling for a three-week national lockdown to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, Reuters reports. “A three-week period of nationally increased restrictions, with the right levels of financial support, will allow us to reset before winter, stop transmission spiralling, protect and prepare health services, give time to get the test-trace-isolate systems fully functional, and save lives,” says a government scientific adviser. But senior minister Michael Gove says a two- or three-week lockdown is not being considered. “The spread and the nature of the disease does not merit that approach at the moment,” he says.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-farrar/uk-needs-three-week-lockdown-for-covid-reset-adviser-idUSKBN2730L2