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Ghost Dog

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9. England (Westminster) is doing almost nothing to halt or slow infection spread,
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:29 AM
Mar 2020

and is hardly counting now...

... On Thursday, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said there was “zero prospect” of any restrictions on travel in and out of London, and that there were “no plans” to shut down its transport network. However, the city’s transport authority had already closed parts of London’s Tube network, and the government did not rule out introducing further social distancing measures in the coming days.

Johnson was due to meet the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, on Thursday to discuss plans to fight coronavirus in London, a spokesman for City Hall told CNN.

Giving evidence to the London assembly on Thursday, Khan said too many Londoners were failing to follow official advice. “We are clearly still in the early phase of this crisis but the spread of the virus is at a more advanced stage in London than in other parts of the country. This means that further measures will need to be introduced at the point at which they will have the biggest effect,” he said...

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-19-20-intl-hnk/h_8475cae995722937659f77eb53aa2441


It is a huge source of potential infection for the rest of the world.
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