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It means the public could be told to start working from home and to scale back their socialising as the country tries to get a grip on the outbreak.

Care homes could place extra restrictions on visitors to protect the elderly, who are most likely to die from the killer bug.

While any Brit with a cold, cough, sniffle or fever could be told to stay at home for a week to help halt the spread of the infection.

Mr Johnson is expected to declare the major shift as he chairs an emergency COBRA meeting at lunchtime tomorrow.

Speaking in the Commons, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Parliament will continue to sit through the crisis as he called on the nation to pull together.

He said: "I know how worrying this is, I know people have deep concerns, I know everyone will play their part in this national effort to defeat the virus.

"The best way to beat it is for us to work together and we'll do whatever it takes, we'll give the NHS whatever it needs and we'll do all that we can to keep people safe and get through this together as a Parliament and as a nation."

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11154141/britain-given-up-fight-coronavirus/