SUN READERS want the UK to be under lockdown now over the coronavirus crisis.
A poll of our readers found 80 per cent of you think Britain should shut up shop to handle the outbreak.
Our question – which you can see below – had attracted more than 11,000 responses by 5pm today, with 80 per cent of you saying the UK should be under lockdown, and just 12 per cent saying we should not.
The other 8 per cent answered with “I’m not sure”.
Boris Johnson had earlier warned he may bring in tougher rules within the next 24 hours unless Brits follow the social distancing rule and stay six feet apart.
The PM warned selfish Brits not listening to advice designed to save lives that he could soon enforce a more serious lockdown – similar to the ones in Italy, France and Spain.
In his address yesterday, Mr Johnson said: “I don’t think you need to use your imagination very much to see where we might have to go, and we will think about this very very actively in the next 24 hours.
“We need to think about the kind of measures we’ve seen elsewhere – other countries that have been forced to bring in restrictions on people’s movements altogether, now as I say I don’t want to do that.”
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There was anger at scenes over the weekend of crowds flocking to parks, markets, beaches and beauty spots.
There are growing fears that Britain is on a similar trajectory to Italy – scene of the world’s worst outbreak – where the death toll passed 5,000 over the weekend.
The Italian government was one of a number of European countries to announce new or extended restrictions – with Germany banning public gatherings of more than two people not from the same household.
Mr Johnson warned the NHS could be “overwhelmed” in the same way as the Italian healthcare system has been, if the spread of the virus in the UK is not curbed.
Families stroll along the beach at Lyme Regis on a beautiful sunny Mother’s Day
It came as:
- An 18-year-old was thought to have become the youngest victim of the virus in Britain as the number of deaths in the UK rose to 281 yesterday
- There are growing fears that Britain is on a similar trajectory to Italy – scene of the world’s worst outbreak – where the death toll passed 5,000 over the weekend
- The PM warned the NHS could be “overwhelmed” in the same way as the Italian healthcare system has been, if the spread of the virus in the UK is not curbed
- Trains were taken under government control this morning – with Brits able to get a refund on unused season tickets
- All McDonalds branches will be closed from tonight – along with Nando’s, Costa Coffee, John Lewis, Primark and Timpson
- Ministers will bring forward emergency laws to the Commons tonight giving the PM sweeping powers to fine people who don’t isolate
