PM Boris Johnson says he thinks 'face coverings will be useful' - both for 'epidemiological reasons but also for giving people confidence in going back to work' as the UK comes out of lockdown Latest:
The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg is next up with a question, and says there has been huge suffering to health and wealth since Boris Johnson was last at the lectern.Johnson says she is"totally right". He adds:"We mourn for every life lost and we mourn for the economic damage as well... and for the dreams people are seeing shattered in their businesses."
The PM says the government has made"a huge effort" to look after workers, with furlough schemes and loans, and is doing"everything we can". But he adds:"It is absolutely vital if we are to bounce back as strongly as I think we can that we don't have a second bout of this, a second bad spike, because that would do lasting economic damage.
"That is why we have to calibrate our measures so carefully, making sure not only to unlock the economy gradually, but to find ways of continuing to suppress the disease."
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