A full coronavirus lockdown now looks 'inevitable' for the UK as the public continues to flock to public spaces despite a surge in COVID-19 deaths
Asked about the failure of Brits to take the crisis as seriously as elsewhere in Europe, Johnson said that he would have to act soon unless the public changed their behaviour.
"If people can't do that, won't do that, don't do that, we will, of course, have to bring in tougher measures." "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," he said.in terms of its coronavirus death toll, with the rate of increase slightly ahead of where Italy was at this stage.
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