Businesses and public services are braced for huge staff shortages as medical chiefs plan to order anyone with coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate for a week.
The proposal comes as two more Brits died from the bug, bringing the death toll to five. And the number of cases rose from 273 to 319 today.
Both the latest victims were in their 70s with underlying health conditions. England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, said: “We are now close to the time, probably within the next 10 to 14 days, when we should move to a situation where everybody with even minor respiratory tract infections or a fever should be self-isolating for a period of seven days. “We will be having to ask members of the public to do different things than
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