Boris Johnson has announced a tightening of regulations for weddings, restricting the number of guests from 30 to just 15 people.
In a Commons statement, the prime minister unveiled the stricter rules for ceremonies in England, which are currently exempt from the “rule of six” law introduced a fortnight ago.
Funeral ceremonies, however, Mr Johnson added will still be permitted to allow 30 guests.
– PM says country faces ‘perilous turning point’ with the number of Covid-19 cases surging across the UK
– New face mask rules
Workers in retail and hospitality and passengers in taxis are to be required to wear face-coverings, prime minister Boris Johnson has told the House of Commons.
– Experts realised it would be ‘almost impossible to contain virus’
While it became apparent Covid-19 was quickly spreading across the globe in late February, epidemiologists realised they had a pandemic on their hands “a little earlier than that”, according to Professor Neil Ferguson.
The expert said he and other mathematical epidemiologists who do modelling realised “the sheer level of seeding of infection into multiple countries” meant it was “almost impossible that we would contain it”.
He told BBC Radio 4: “The broader measures countries were adopting we estimated would catch at most a third of cases, we now know probably more like 10 per cent, and we anticipated there was almost certainly spread going on in countries which wasn’t yet recognised and that was proved to be right.”
