deaths.
On Monday evening, Boris Johnson Britain ordered to go into lockdown for three weeks but stressed that the restrictions will be kept under ‘constant review’.
The Prime Minister has now written to every single household in the UK to urge everyone to obey the lockdown and has warned that ‘things will get worse before they get better’.
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But professor Neil Ferguson, who is the Government’s leading epidemiology adviser, believes the UK’s lockdown needs to be in place until June.
Ferguson told The Times : ‘We’re going to have to keep these measures in place, in my view, for a significant period of time – probably until the end of May, maybe even early June. May is optimistic. ’
Britons breaking the lockdown rules can now be arrested or fined £ under new police powers.
The Home Office has said the police ’will always apply their common sense and discretion’.
Meanwhile, Johnson,
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