Boris Johnson has said the elderly will need to self-isolate for at least 12 weeks.
Giving a press conference this evening, the Prime Minister said by the weekend, those groups particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 will be asked to stay at home to ensure they are ‘largely shielded from social contact’.
Chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty added: ‘The group of people who we would want to take this advice particularly seriously are older people above 70, people who in adult life would normally be advised to have the flu vaccination, so these are people with chronic diseases such as chronic heart disease or chronic kidney disease, and also – as a precautionary measure because we are early in our understanding and we want to be sure – women who are pregnant.
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