The Director-General of the World Health Organisation warned countries to not to "let this fire burn" in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries need to enforce all of the following measures: testing, contact tracing, quarantine and social distancing.
He said everyone needs to "do it all" in a warning. "Any country that looks at the experience of other countries with large epidemics and thinks 'that won’t happen to us' is making a deadly mistake.
It can happen to any country," he said. This comes after Boris Johnson introduced measures in the UK telling Brits with a cough or temperature to self-isolate for a week, as those self-isolating with mild symptoms were advised not to phone 111.
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