Coronavirus: UK will need social distancing until at least end of year, says Chris Whitty

Social distancing will be needed until at least the end of the year to prevent fresh outbreaks of coronavirus, the government’s chief medical officer has said. Prof Chris Whitty said it was important to be realistic that ‘highly disruptive’ social distancing would need to be in place for ‘really quite a long period of time’.
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