Sky News understands the UK shifted to tougher measures on Monday partly as a result of the document produced by experts.
What is the latest coronavirus advice?
Everyone, including if you are not displaying symptoms yourself and live in a household where no one is displaying symptoms, should stop all unnecessary contact with others and all unnecessary travel Don't call the NHS 111 helpline if you have mild or moderate illness and instead seek advice online. But do call if your illness becomes more severe.
By contrast,"suppression" aims to"reverse epidemic growth, reducing case numbers to low levels and maintaining that situation indefinitely".Suppression measures would require social distancing by the"entire population" with"home isolation of cases and household quarantine of their family members" as well as possible school closures, according to the document.
However, the team warned it is"not at all certain that suppression will succeed long term" as"no public health intervention with such disruptive effects on society has been previously attempted for such a long duration of time".Having based their findings on health service demand levels in China, Italy and the UK, the Imperial team only reached their conclusions"in the last few days".
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