On March 23, 2020 the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an ‘historic” announcement that the UK would go into a strict lockdown, a “stay-at-home” order in order to “slow the spread” of the virus. People they must “stay at home” and can only leave home for essential reasons such to shop for basic necessities like food, limits exercise to one form a day, restricts travel only to and from essential work. [1, 2, 3]
“Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses.” said Boris Johnson.
As of this date, the BBC reported that there had been 83,945 tests to date, with 6,650 confirmed cases and 335 deaths attributed to COVID-19.
On March 19, 2020, four days earlier, the UK downgraded COVID-19 as no longer a high consequence infectious disease (HCID), yet MERS and SARS are still on the list!