Stop social contact, UK PM Johnson says, as coronavirus spreads faster - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Johnson said anyone with symptoms of the coronavirus should isolate along with their entire household for 14 days.

“What we are announcing today is a very substantial change in the way that we want people to live their lives and I can’t remember anything like it in my life time,” Johnson, 55, said at a news conference in Number 10 Downing Street, flanked by the government’s top scientist and top doctor. This advice was particularly important in London, Johnson said, as Britain’s capital appears to be “a few weeks ahead” of the rest of the country.

Johnson said anyone with symptoms of the coronavirus should isolate along with their entire household for 14 days. The British government has faced criticism for no longer testing all suspected cases of coronavirus, and Whitty said testing was critical and Britain would scale it up. Earlier on Monday the World Health Organization called on all countries to ramp up their testing program.

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