More than 400,000 people have signed up to act as NHS volunteers in just 24 hours, Boris Johnson has announced
The NHS has said the volunteers will support the 1.5 million vulnerable people who have been asked to"shield" themselves from COVID-19.- and as the number of deaths was confirmed to have risen to 465.The PM said the country was coping"very well indeed" amidst the"most challenging possible circumstances".
He also said ministers would be examining legal ways of rallying against those profiteering by hiking up prices during the lockdown.will be set out by the chancellor on Thursday.Mr Johnson told MPs in the Commons earlier that the government would do"whatever we can" to support them. Amid reports of crowded Tube carriages in London, there have been calls for all non-emergency construction work to come to a halt in order to allow workers in that industry to stay home and avoid spreading the virus further.London mayor Sadiq Khan has said"too many of the people using TfL services at the busiest times work in construction", as he reiterated his call for a ban on non-safety construction work.
However, Mr Khan has insisted this is not possible due to staff being off sick or self-isolating because of the coronavirus.Its last task before going into recess was considering and scrutinising the government's emergency legislation to tackle the outbreak.The bill contains sweeping powers and has become law after it cleared the House of Lords without amendment.could be ready to order on Amazon in days, rather than weeks or months.
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