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| Covid: Tighter rules 'will take time' to show results, says Johnson | |
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| New measures to tackle the rise in coronavirus cases "will take time to feed through", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. | New measures to tackle the rise in coronavirus cases "will take time to feed through", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. |
| He told a Downing Street briefing that the high number of daily cases and "tragic increase" in deaths "show why our plan is so essential". | |
| The prime minister called for "collective forbearance, common sense and willingness to make sacrifices". | |
| But he said he would "not hesitate" to impose further restrictions if needed. | |
| Mr Johnson said the nation could face the winter "with confidence" because it is now better prepared than it was in March. | |
| The preparations include being on track for 500,000 tests a day by the end of October, 2,000 beds in seven Nightingale hospitals and a four-month supply of protective equipment such as masks, gowns and visors. | |
| He said they had trebled the number of ventilators in the NHS to 31,500 in the last six months. | |
| "I want to thank everyone for the fantastic national effort that we are seeing," Mr Johnson said. | |
| "No matter how impatient we may be, how fed up we may become, there is only one way of doing this, and that's by showing a collective forbearance, common sense and willingness to make sacrifices for the safety of others." | |
| He paid particular tribute to university students, hundreds of whom have been forced to self-isolate, and are "experiencing a first term back at university unlike anything they could have imagined". | |
| The prime minister was speaking alongside England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, as the latest UK coronavirus figures showed there have been a further 7,108 cases of coronavirus and another 71 deaths. |