Boris Johnson will make urgent ‘wartime appeal’ for ventilators to fight coronavirus
and non-essential shops after Ireland called last orders by shutting them as the clock struck midnight on Sunday.
The Health boss told Sky News: "We’ll be setting it out with more detail when that’s the right time to do so because we absolutely appreciate that is a very big ask of the elderly and the vulnerable and it’s for their own self-protection."Downing Street promised to publish a plan for how to provide food and medicine for the elderly during the stay-at-home diktat.
The emergency laws, which will enter Parliament on Thursday, will also relax medical safeguards governing the registration of deaths and cremations, while the Government could also be forced to use compulsory purchases to buy up land for mass burials.doesn’t have enough ventilators to cope, as the death toll in the UK nearly doubled to 35.
said it was the duty of British companies to do “whatever we can do to help during the unprecedented times our country is facing”.field hospitals to cope with the demand for beds, telling the BBC: “I’m open to all options.”
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