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Government asks UK to stop ‘non-essential’ contact - BBC Newsnight
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27:49Now PlayingBoris Johnson has announced everyone in the UK should avoid "nonessential" travel and contact with others to curb coronavirus as the country's death toll hit 55. Subscribe to our channel here
The government has advised the UK to avoid pubs, clubs and theatres and all ‘non-essential’ contact with others. They said people should work from home where possible.
It comes as the country’s death toll from the coronavirus hits 55.
People in at-risk groups will soon be asked within days to stay home for 12 weeks in a significant increase in the severity of the government approach.
But does this approach come at the right time?
We ask health minister Helen Whately about the efficacy of these measures, and whether it is right to advise rather than enforce these measures.
Political editor Nick Watt reports and Mark Urban is joined in the studio by Director of the Wellcome Trust Jeremy Farrar, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London Peter Openshaw, Dr James Haddock and peer Joan Bakewell.
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