Boris Johnson Tells U.K. to Work From Home for 6 Months to Stop Virus
- Premier: “Your mild cough can be someone else’s death knell”
- New pub curfew and work from home order to last six months
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Boris Johnson appealed to Britons to obey new restrictions and work from home where possible to prevent the spread of coronavirus, warning there are “unquestionably difficult months to come.”
The U.K. risks “many more deaths, many more families losing loved ones before their time” if people fail to do their part, the prime minister said in a televised address on Tuesday evening. “The tragic reality of having Covid is that your mild cough can be someone else’s death knell.”