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Coronavirus: UK government announces drastic measures to tackle outbreak – BBC News

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As the pandemic of Coronavirus claims more lives around the world, the people of the United Kingdom are now being advised to make drastic changes to their day-to-day existence.

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected criticism that his government had been slow to respond to the scale of the crisis.

Mr Johnson said now was the moment to stop all non-essential contact with other people and to avoid all non-essential travel.

The over 70s, pregnant women and those with underlying health conditions need to be particularly vigilant.

Entire families must self-isolate for 14 days if just one member has a persistent new cough or a high temperature.

From this weekend those with the most serious health conditions should be isolated from social contact for 12 weeks

Today’s announcement marks a significant shift from the UK government’s position last week. Minutes before the news conference took place the World Health Organization called for stronger measures than the UK and some other countries were taking.

Officials are now convinced that the UK is on the verge of a major upswing in cases and there are genuine concerns about the impact on the National Health Service.

Huw Edwards presents tonight’s BBC News at Ten and unravels the day’s events with the BBC’s health editor Hugh Pym and medical correspondent Fergus Walsh.

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  1. @BBCNews

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    impact of Governments' Coronavirus measures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYrt9POFZ5E

  2. @benbridgen1426

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Nobody gives a dam anymore

  3. @gaggymott9159

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    'Mater' is pronounced as 'Matter' in Northern Ireland! 😂😂😂😂😂

  4. @markdavies389

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Doesn't this all look silly now in 2024?😂

  5. @sallywright8065

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Three years on and chickens are coming home to roost. This must be the biggest con in modern history.

  6. @ravd1427

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    This nonsense aged well. Prepare for a new 'deadly variant' 🐑🐑

  7. @carolinepoynton1895

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Bet looking back now everyone is feeling so stupid

  8. @PC-lu3zf

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Glad that’s 3 years ago never again will I follow a lockdown I’ll emigrate next time. Pandemic is in past for me.

  9. @jamiec4478

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    40 mins or the masks are a risk? Interesting as shop staff had to wear them all day long

  10. @davidwade3103

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Surreal watching back now

  11. @paulinecabbed1271

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Thank goodness that Herd immunity works

  12. @martinbassss6974

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    This aged well

  13. @jabbadabbajew6035

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Just coming back to say well that was the best money making scheme in modern history.

    You lying, scheming, conniving b*stards.

  14. @anguschoi9122

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Government is good

  15. @kc8130

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    What a scam this was

  16. @thewestoe0ne

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    And the bodies were piled high in the streets

  17. @bellajohn2258

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    In few months or no time people will definitely be kicking themselves in regret for missing the opportunity to buy or invest in cryptocurrency. Can my fellow investor's say HELLO.

  18. @dammedwater6058

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    dont invest in the uk they r shrude investors they left northen ireland and the falklands out to dry at active war with mainland. when it comes to crunch time they will bail out. leave u 4 dead. the future is going to b built on economic trust like ur credit scoring. they will lose out for sure.
    china will cater to gen z value for money motif.
    invest in asia

  19. @johnybgood3712

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    dont invest in the uk they r shrude investors they left northen ireland and the falklands out to dry at active war with mainland. when it comes to crunch time they will bail out. leave u 4 dead. the future is going to b built on economic trust like ur credit scoring. they will lose out for sure.
    china will cater to gen z value for money motif.
    invest in asia

  20. @denclips1223

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    A long while
    Me : 1 year 😷

  21. @ellaf4490

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    TO ALL THE GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES IN THE WORLD
    What … what will happen to you in a few months is inevitable and its intensity will surpass all the action movie scenarios that have been made on earth … your emotions will expel excrement and your mental state will force you to bite off your own tongues … all these moments which you enjoyed on earth as a substitute for a human will pass in a fraction of a second … then there will only be eternal fear … you like to shine, so you will not only be spectators in the front row of this shocking event, but you will play the main, maybe even Oscar-winning roles in it … Good luck…

  22. @chihanlee512

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    What they said:
    You trust China you get Corona🎵

    Enjoy the virus England

  23. @deanh1981

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Pathetic lock yourselves in if your that scared

  24. @BillCooper1776

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    These New readers know they are lying to the Public. Don't forget them when the "Treason" trials start.
    In the 2017 to 2018 winter period, there were an estimated 50,100 excess winter deaths in England and Wales. Why weren't we told to wear masks? U.N. has warned an estimated 130 million people will be thrown into poverty and possible starvation due to the economic effects of the lock downs. Suicides are increasing. Children's mental health has suffered. 30,000 cancer patients will die due to lack of care. I could go on but whats the point. You are obsessing on 41,000 deaths. When doctors are told to put covid on the death certificate, no matter what they die of, DNR notices given to ambulance staff. 25,000 old people with covid shipped into the old people's homes and paid for the pleasure. This led to the majority of recorded deaths. At what point do you put aside your hysteria and realise that your actions and the collective, by virtue signalling and the nervous desire to fit in, are condoning the destruction of the economy. I will ask you again in a years time when we are in food queues, run by Marxism, you've lost your house and your job. Will you still want to abuse little kids with your bacteria sodden masks?

  25. @tooting_owl8543

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    The diseases which kill you when you've got AIDS are ones which are around us all the time; they can only harm you when the immune system is not working. Maybe coronavirus has always been around us and what is causing the "pandemic" is something that has universally impaired people's immunity. Now the government is planning on spending billions of pounds looking for a vaccine rather than investigating what might have impaired immunity. This stinks of the corruption of people in power getting massive bungs from the drugs companies and the tax payer footing the bill. Also the paranoid powerphiles of parliament are clearly using the "pandemic" as an excuse to impose draconian restrictions on people's freedom in a way that should otherwise be inequitable.

  26. @coolmanpoop6958

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    hi

  27. @forducksaketv2580

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Get balls England Take Hong Kong back put China in its place they reneged on the treaty to turn the island of Hong Kong back to China and gave a whole country to a gangster to enslave

  28. @carolynedgar1090

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Man's face melts in plane crash, pilot dies and dies as well but comes back to life, take a look…
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih8EMqALUvk

  29. @chihanlee512

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    The government actually don’t care about human lifes. Just die.

    America and Europe help build China since 1980/1990s, virus is just part of the package. Please Enjoy.

    All you people do is cry like a baby while China is celebrating over your death. And there’s nothing you can do to China. 🙂

  30. @psycharol

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    If you make vaccination mandatory the answer is no!

  31. @SB-ok3xc

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices

    George Orwell

  32. @anotherbrickoutthewall9237

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Just looking back over a month later and 250000 people in the uk should be dead…..well it's 18500…their modeling system needs remodeling

  33. @peterallison4464

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    I am see echos of the past, world war 1 in particular The General Haig's military campaigns,whereby 100 of thousands of British and commonwealth soldiers were sacrificed in a vain attempt to win over the Bosh. He sent in wave after wave of soldiers over years, ill equipped to handle the use of german machine gunners as he was using cavalry and infantry from a bygone era. For this he was houered and given medals. Truly pathetic Remember this.

  34. @testmice

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    stop lying to us.

  35. @nikhiljayakumar01

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    look Kerala model to prevent virus

  36. @user-ts5en5jk9r

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    총리는 50대니까 푹쉬는게 맞겠네… 브렉시트 잘되고 코로나도 마치길.

  37. @graphictshirts

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    People aren’t dying fast enough so they are trying to cover it up by imposing fear, control and panic. It’s a planned LOCK STEP Top Down Government Control agenda outlined in detail in the Rockefeller Institute’s “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development. Watch David Wilcock.

  38. @rajeshkoppa2367

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Find the cure…. Unite entire world team all the scientists, doctors , students , professors, make an online open source flatform convert all industries to medical factories ..MNCs companies , rich people , government fund heavily on research and development of cure and vaccine….

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  40. @Amy-and-Holly

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    My mum's been lying to me, she doensr want me to leave home for 12 weeks yet no one had bad health conditions, she's literally using 12 weeks as an excuse to stop me from talking to any person at all

  41. @AdrianMartan

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Pure panic pandemic propaganda.

    The NWO plan goes as smooth as predicted.

  42. @fuddsaethfed9147

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Should have acted so much sooner, and they need new advisors.

  43. @luckystar9205

    January 18, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    May all Mighty God protect all the UK and every single individual person Amen 🙏

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