UK government laws set to be announced to defeat the coronavirus are "unprecedented in peacetime", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.
Mr Hancock also confirmed that the NHS would be cancelling elective surgery as he outlined the toughened government response in the House of Commons.
Mr Hancock said: "We will be cancelling or postponing non-time sensitive elective surgery and the NHS will make a statement about this later today." He added that the Government "absolutely will" publish the science and the modelling.
Elective surgery refers operations which don't address life threatening conditions. Mr Hancock was updating MPs moments after Boris Johnson said everyone must stop "all non-essential social contact" to help contain the
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