UK orders 3-week lockdown to tackle coronavirus

LONDON — Britain orders a three-week lockdown to tackle the spread of coronavirus, shutting “non-essential” shops and services, and banning gatherings of more than two people.

“Stay at home,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson says in a televised address to the nation, as he unveils unprecedented peacetime measures, after the death toll climbed to 335.

— AFP

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