That’s the UK now in lockdown:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEFrbLeDks - BBC News youtube channel. PM announcing strict new curbs on life in the UK to tackle the spread of coronavirus)
Edit on Monday - or maybe not, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock:-
Coronavirus: Calls for clarity over new curbs on life in UK
‘Confused, dangerous, flippant’: rest of world pans PM’s handling of coronavirus
Live Guardian news link on the Coronavirus from around the world:-
"Donald Trump is addressing the country at a televised press conference from the White House at the moment.
After an awkward delay of several minutes, the US president has just taken the stage to begin the coronavirus press briefing today.
Trump then reiterates almost word for word the message he tweeted out a few minutes ago: “It’s very important that we protect our Asian American community in the US and all around the world. They’re amazing people and the spreading of the virus is not their fault in any way, shape or form.”
That new message, after the Trump administration spent a week embracing the racist tactic of calling coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and then responding with outrage and denial when it was labeled as racist, comes in the wake of growing evidence of the toll of racist attacks, harassment and blame targeting Asian Americans across the country.
Trump opened his press conference with the promise that “the hardship will end. It will end soon.”
“Our country was not built to be shut down,” Trump said. “This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down.”"
Words fail me. I’d no idea Trump had been calling it the ‘Chinese virus’ - and confirms just what an ignorant person he is. I take it he won’t be taking any responsibility for it, again.
How did the UK and US end up with these two bumbling baffoons in charge? Neither seem fit for politics, let along running the country in a normal eveyday type situation, but in the situation we find ourselves in…