Protect 27 million people watched the prime minister's decree last night this morning in central London.

Signs of really impact in glass go to the government is underlining the message with mass texting of the population.

The instruction now to stay at home unless you're shopping for basic necessities, going for some daily exercise.

Have medical needs, are taking essential workers Children to school or have unavoidable travel for work that can't be done from home construction workers among them and allowed to travel to work by the government.

They're supposed to keep two meters distance between each other on sight.

The mayor of London was asked if they should be allowed to carry on working.

My view is no, and I made that point quite forcefully yesterday's Cobra and I made a point quite clearly to the prime minister, According to the government's advice, the answer is yes.

His concern that while many are avoiding the trains, we're still too many rush hour commuters squeezing into a reduced train service.

But many of those commuting today, it seems, are from other sectors.

Im Bank supports our people working from home so supportive workers for a month.

I have to go to work.

I have to close my shop.

She runs a vaping shop with her husband today, like so many shutting up shop with no idea when they'll be able to open it up again.

This scary to Fiona's, it's terrifying.

This is our life.

This is, you know, way our bills.

You know how we get the money to pay our friend a girl.

West Midlands police said they found it unbelievable that officers today had to break up a barbecue party.

As residents ignored the government's ban on gatherings, police forces around the country seemed to take different lines on how to interpret.

The new laws wanted help from the government on what was expected of them.

As we work through over the next few days, the guidance and there needs to be real clarity from government, and I know that that is being worked on to be very clear about all off the reasons that people can and can't be outside As of today, the Cabinet meets by teleconference on the daily press conferences conducted in an empty room in Downing Street with journalists linked up from their offices amongst the questions today.

What should individuals do if they're uncomfortable being ordered by their employers to turn up at non essential work?

The advice is crystal clear to goto work where that work can't be done at home and watch the boyfriends girlfriends do if they don't currently live together.

So if you're two individuals, two hearts of the couple are currently in separate households.

Ideally, they should stay in those households.

The alternative might be that for quite a significant period going forward, they should just test the strength of their relationship and decide where the one wishes to be permanently resident in another household.

But people have been people in the streets cuddling and just not taking it seriously and see that the data port taken seriously, it's going to rust in Scotland, the government is allowing only limited construction work to carry on.

Other implementation may differ over time tonight another stark image to remind the whole country why this is a ll necessary.

The government has announced.

London's Excel Centre in the Docklands is to be turned into a 4000 bed emergency hospital.

The exhibition center was the venue for the G 20 summit on world leaders trying to shore up the world's economy 11 years ago after the financial crash, Now the site for what is showing every sign of being a bigger economic shock on top of human tragedy for many with no clear end in sight.