BRITAIN can send coronavirus “packing” in just 12 weeks if we all follow strict new rules, Boris Johnson vowed today. The PM stressed that the whole country could be over the worst of t…
onfident we can send coronavirus packing in this country".And he again said that a package of vital measures for helping working Brits up and down the country was on the way.We are going to look after the people who really suffer, we will be directing our support to them first, the people first.
If it works, "we will buy literally hundreds of thousands of these kits as soon as practical", he promised. NHS staff and police will have the power to detain people for up to 24 hours and force them to be tested for Covid-19. The emergency powers will be able to be "switched on" and "switched off" if and when needed - for up to two years.
Meanwhile, Downing Street denied that the capital would be put into lockdown - with any restrictions on travel or transport.
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