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As Boris Johnson announced an unprecedented shutdown of the country this week, more evidence emerged that the coronavirus epidemic is “galloping ahead”, A further 87 people in Britain succumbed to the virus on Tuesday, the highest daily toll so far, taking the total number of deaths in the nation to 422. More than 8,000 cases have been confirmed in the UK, and the pressure on the NHS is mounting fast. Worldwide, the number of cases has passed 400,000 and a quarter of the world’s population is living under lockdown. Among those who have tested positive for Covid-19 are Prince Charles, US senator Rand Paul and the disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein. The UK government hopes the latest lockdown measures will change public behaviour and halt the virus’s spread without the more extreme enforcement introduced in Italy, France and Spain, where no one can leave home without appropriate paperwork. Whether its strategy works, “we will find out in due course”.
source : http://www.vikilix.com/2020/03/28/the-u ... -lockdown/