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| Cafes, pubs and restaurants must close from Friday night, except for take-away food, to tackle coronavirus, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. | Cafes, pubs and restaurants must close from Friday night, except for take-away food, to tackle coronavirus, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. |
| All the UK's nightclubs, theatres, cinemas, gyms and leisure centres have also been told to close "as soon as they reasonably can". | |
| Mr Johnson said the situation will be reviewed each month. | Mr Johnson said the situation will be reviewed each month. |
| The chancellor has said the government will pay 80% of wages for employees who are not working, up to £2,500 a month. | |
| The announcement about closures follows similar measures taken in other countries - including in Ireland, where pubs and bars were asked to close from last Sunday. | |
| There have been 167 deaths in England from the coronavirus outbreak, as well as six in Scotland, three in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. | |
| Speaking at a daily Downing Street press briefing, Mr Johnson said the measures would be enforced "strictly" and that licensing arrangements will make doing so "relatively simple". | |
| He urged people not to go out on Friday night, stressing: "For now, at least physically, we need to keep people apart." | |
| The prime minister added: "The more effectively we follow the advice we are given, the faster this country will stage both a medical and an economic recovery in full." | |
| Speaking at the same briefing, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the new measures to help employees out of work were "unprecedented". | |
| He appealed to employers to stand by their workers during the coronavirus crisis, in the take of many firms warning of collapse. | |
| England's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, told reporters at the briefing that the government was not advising people against going outside. | |
| "We are saying, if you are going to go outside, go in a way that reduces your social contact," she said. |