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Since his isolation in Downing Street, forced to extend his quarantine beyond a week, Boris Johnson has tried to appease the "rebellion" of the British, who have returned to take the car this week and to defy the "bolt" ordered by the Government March 23. The arrival of good weather has once again alerted the British authorities, fearing a new stampede in the parks this weekend.

Johnson gave himself an example, "Kidnapped in Downing Street", and asked his compatriots to do the same in his latest video recorded on his mobile phone: "Stay home to save lives. It will be the only way to turn the numbers around. We hope this can happen in two weeks. "

A total of 2,921 Britons have lost their lives to date, 569 in the past 24 hours . The number of confirmed cases is close to 43,000, from the 163,000 tests carried out to date.

"We are seeing a worrying trend in recent days ," said Yvonne Doyle, director of Public Health in England. "Most are doing it, as we see in the fall in the use of public transport, but motorized traffic has increased again since Monday."

Interestingly, 55% of Britons estimate that drastic measures of social distance were taken "too late" by Johnson, compared to 34% who think they were taken in due time. In any case, 90% consider that the decision taken by the Government was the appropriate one and 58% even consider that the restrictions should be in force until the end of May.

Former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has become a ringleader of bolt resistance, warning that there may be "rebellion" if the government overly prolongs the restrictions . The measures will continue for at least another ten days, when they will be reviewed and even reinforced if the epidemic continues to spread.

Attention was focused, however, throughout Thursday on the slowness and the delay with which the tests are being carried out on the population and medical personnel. To date, around 8,000 tests have been carried out daily on patients and around 2,000 on doctors and nurses (in contrast to 100,000 tests per day in Germany).

"We are going to hit the gas," Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in a reappearance after his week of convalescence from contracting coronavirus. Hancock promised to hit 100,000 tests a day in late April .

Labor opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said the lack of evidence among medical personnel is "ridiculous . " "It appears that all the measures taken by the government have simply been ineffective," Corbyn added.

Scientific adviser Patrick Vallance and medical adviser Chris Witty have been criticized in the meantime for the misstep, when the British Government decided to limit the tests to the high-risk population and had to back down on the recommendation of the World Health Organization ( WHO) to test the widest possible spectrum of the population.

"We are going to do more and more testing," Johnson said in his latest video, visibly affected by the disease. "This is the way to go and we will continue to defend it to the end."

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