Coronavirus: People with mild symptoms to be told to self-isolate COVID2019
The second phase -"delay" - will seek to push back the peak of the epidemic to the summer, when there will be less pressure on the NHS.
Prof Whitty said introducing measures"too early" could become problematic as"anything we do, we have got to be able to sustain". We know the first step is to get people with even relatively moderate flu-like symptoms to self-isolate. To date only those who have been to an affected country or who had had close contact with an infected person had been asked to do this.
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