Boris Johnson is coming under increasing pressure for acting 'too slowly' to the spread of coronavirus
criticised the government for not moving into the second phase already, saying Mr Johnson should be closing schools and banning big events sooner rather than later.
He added: ‘You should have no regrets about acting quickly, this is the biggest single event of this kind for 100 years since the Spanish flu, of course there are going to be significant economic costs, but better to take those economic costs immediately and keep it short and I think we are being too slow in responding.’
‘There are many who think the key thing at the moment is not to panic people, but I think the way you reassure people is by being honest, by being transparent about the risks, and by acting quickly and decisively. ‘From the beginning of the outbreak we have based all of our decisions on the best available scientific advice and we will continue to do so,’ he said.
The government has warned against all but essential travel to Italy and said that Britons with only ‘minor’ cold, flu or fever symptoms could soon be asked to stay at home in self-isolation. In developments on how the virus is behaving, experts have said people infected with Covid-19 could go five days without showing any symptoms. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimated the average incubation period of the virus to be 5.1 days
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