All Brits aged over 70 will be instructed soon by the government to stay in strict isolation for four months as part of a planned response to coronavirus, ITV reports.
Political editor Robert Peston said the government was likely to enforce a "wartime-style" mobilisation effort in the next five to 20 days.
Other measures being planned included the forced requisitioning of hotels and other buildings as temporary hospitals and the requisitioning of private hospitals, he said.
Daily Star Online has approached the Department of Health for confirmation. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the government would be put under partial lockdown for 15 days amid the continuing coronavirus crisis.
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