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Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday shut down social life in Britain and ordered the most vulnerable to isolate for 12 weeks, ramping up the battle against a coronavirus outbreak just as it accelerates towards it peak.

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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