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Coronavirus: PM says everyone should avoid non-essential travel Coronavirus: PM says everyone should avoid non-essential travel
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said "everyone" in the UK should now avoid "non-essential" travel and contact with others and to fight coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said everyone in the UK should now avoid "non-essential" travel and contact with others to fight coronavirus.
He said people should work from home and avoid pubs, club, theatres where possible, as part of a range of stringent new measures. He said people should work from home where possible, as part of a range of stringent new measures.
In the first of a series of new daily briefings, Mr Johnson also said elderly and vulnerable people would have to begin self-isolating for "around 12 weeks" in "a few days time". Pregnant women, people over the age of 70 and those with certain health conditions should consider the advice "particularly important", he said.
All elderly and vulnerable people must also begin self-isolating within days.
The first person in Wales to die with Covid-19 brings the UK total to 36.
In the first of a series of daily briefings on the virus, which causes the Covid-19 disease, Mr Johnson said "drastic action" was needed as the UK approaches "the fast growth part of the upward curve" in the number of cases.
Mr Johnson said that by next weekend, those with the most serious health conditions must be "largely shielded from social contact for around 12 weeks".
Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, said other measures may be necessary - including school closures - at some point.
"Those things need to be done at the right time," he said.
The UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said the chance of dying with the virus "for any individual person" was "very low".
But he added that if one person in any household starts to display symptoms, everyone living there must stay at home for 14 days.
He said social restrictions would be "very difficult for people to maintain" but they would be "doing it to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed".