Name: "Stop non-essential contact with others": UK government virus update, 16 March
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I wanted to bring everyone up to date with the national fight back against the new Corona virus on dhe.

The decisions that we've just taken in Cobra for the whole of the of the UK a cz we said last week, Our objective is to delay on flat on the peak of the epidemic by bringing forward the right measures at the right time.

Said that we minimize suffering and save life, and everything we do is based scrupulously on the best scientific advice.

Last week we asked everyone to stay at home if you had one of two key symptoms.

High temperature, a new and continuous cough.

Today we need to go further because, according to Sage, uh, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Emergencies, it looks as though we're now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve on DDE.

Without drastic action, Casey's could double every five or six days.

So first we need to ask you to ensure that if you anyone in your household has one of those two symptoms, then you should stay at home for 14 days.

That means that if possible, you should not go out even to buy food or essentials other than for exercise and in that case, at a safe distance from others.

If necessary, you should ask for help from others for your daily necessities.

And if that is not possible, then you should do what you can to limit your social contact when you leave the house to get supplies.

And even if you don't have symptoms and if no one in your household has symptoms, there is more that we need you to do now.

So second, now is the time for everyone to stop non essential contact with others and to stop all unnecessary travel.

We need people to start working from home where they possibly can, and you should avoid pubs, clubs, theaters on dhe, other such social venues.

We should all only use the N hs when we really need to Aunt, please go online rather than ringing in hs 111 Now this advice about avoiding all are necessary.

Social contact is particularly important for people over 70 for pregnant women and for those with health conditions with some health conditions on DDE.

Why bring in this very draconian measure?

The answer is that we are asking people to do something that is difficult on disruptive of their lives.

And the right moment, as we've always said, is too.

Do it when it is most effective, when we think it could make the biggest difference to slowing the spread of the disease, reducing the number of victims, reducing the number of fatalities.

We should be focusing on the most vulnerable to third in a few days time.

By this coming weekend, it will be necessary to go further and to ensure that those with the most serious health conditions are largely shielded from contact from social contact for around 12 weeks.

Andi again, the reason for doing this in the next few days, robin earlier or later, is that this is going to be very disruptive for people who have such conditions difficult for them.

But I believe it's now necessary and we want to ensure that this period of shielding this period of maximum protection coincides with the peak of the disease, and it's not clear that the peak of the epidemic is coming faster in some parts of the country than in others, and it looks as though London is now a few weeks ahead.

So to relieve the pressure on the London health system and to slow the spread in London, it's important that Londoners now pay special attention to what we're saying about avoiding non essential contact and to take particularly seriously the advice about working from home Onda voiding confined spaces such as pubs on Dhe restaurants.

Lastly, it remains true, as we said in the last few weeks, that risks of transmission of the disease at mass gatherings.

Such a sporting events are relatively low, but obviously logically, we advise against unnecessary social contact of all kinds.

It's right that we should extend that advice to mass gatherings as well.

On DSO, we've also got to ensure that we have the critical workers we need that might otherwise be deployed of those gatherings to deal with this emergency.

So so from tomorrow we will no longer be a supporting mass gatherings with emergency workers in the way that we normally do so.

Mass gatherings were now moving emphatically away from, and I know that many people, including mil millions off fit on active people over 70 may feel listening to what?

I've just said that there is something excessive about these measures, but I have to say I believe they are overwhelmingly worth it.

Slow the spread of the disease to reduce the peak.

To save life, minimize suffering and to give our n hs the chance to cope.

Over the last few days, I've bean comparing notes and talking to leaders around the world, and I can tell you that the U.

Is now leading a growing global campaign amongst all our friends and allies with her in the G seven, g 20 u.

All those bodies in which we play a significant role were leading a campaign to fight back against this disease to keep the economy growing.

To make sure that humanity has access to the drugs on the treatments that we'll need on the UK is also at the front of the effort toe back business to back our economy to make sure that we get through it.

I know that we are today asking a lot of everybody's is far more now than just washing your hands.

Though they're clearly washing your hands remains important.

But I can tell you that across this country, people on businesses, in my experience, are responding with amazing energy on creativity to the challenge that we face on.

I want to thank everybody for the part that you are playing on that you're gonna play.

Our chief scientific adviser will now update us on where we are ever to you, Patrick.

So we've looked along its age, measures to conceive lives and protect people.

The objectives, as I laid out last time, are really suppressed the cub in order to keep it below n hs capacity so that the N H s can cope and a shield the vulnerable on those most likely to get severe disease so that we protect them across this period.

Most people it's worth reminding us have a mild disease.

But some do know this is a very fast moving situation.

The latest numbers that we reviewed it sage suggests that we're entering a fast growth period or on the cusp of doing so on London is ahead of other parts of the country With the outset laid out a plan on advised that we would implement it.

The measures at the right stage and in the right combination, the right combination to ensure that we get the biggest impact.

Unfortunately, that time is now for many of these measures.

What we're doing is implementing them, actually at a stage off the epidemic, which is a little bit earlier than has been done in some other countries.

Given where we are in terms of the epidemic now, the measures have to objectives.

One is to delay the transmission of this virus across the community.

The measures, as the prime minister's outlined, include whole household isolation.

So if one person gets the symptoms off new persistent cough or fever, the whole household stays isolated for 14 days.

The reason it's 14 days is the seven days for the person who's got the infection, the incubation period that others may catch it on the seven days after that.

We're also recommending increased social distancing.

That's the phrase that you hear, which means trying to reduce contact between people again to try to delay this transmission.

Oh, it and where individuals could do it.

Unnecessary travel should be reduced in stop.

Avoiding gatherings and crowded places is important on those gatherings.

Big or small are important so that you get the whole thing together.

It's not just the size of a gathering is actually a ll gatherings which become important on reducing social contacts.

There are specific measures for the vulnerable groups, the people who are most likely to get serious illness with this infection.

And Chris was he will say more about that.

Those measures would need to go on for 12 weeks or so across this period, maybe a little longer.

But we talked about last week staying at home.

If you've got the symptoms, these new measures have a big effect.

This is not a series of small interventions.

You would anticipate that this could have a dramatic effect to reduce the peak and to reduce death rate.

They are not easy, but they are important and they will have the effect if we all do it.

This is a matter for us to take accountability, to make sure we help each other, protect ourselves and protect the N H.

It is also possible, as laid out in the plan, that other measures may be necessary, including at some point, As we've said, it may be necessary to think about things like school closures.

But those things again need to be done at the right time.

At the right stage of the outbreak, I'll hand over to Chris.

I'm just gonna have a few comments additionally from a medical point of view.

But I'm not gonna repeat points that already be made on.

The first thing is to make an obvious point that this is now a very global disease.

On the way you deal with global pandemics is different in public terms, health terms than the way you would deal with a localized outbreak where you were the first country or a very significant region that is, has got it.

And the second point is the obvious point again that in this country this disease is now accelerating up the curve.

But it is still at a low level, but he will accelerate up now really, quite rapidly now.

We obviously need to do things that are both effective and all the measures that are here have bean gone over by several large numbers of scientists in different ways.

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