The UK may not resume normal life for six months or more due to the new coronavirus pandemic, warned British health deputy chief Jenny Harries on Sunday. The latter considered that it would be "dangerous" to suddenly lift the confinement to which the population is currently subjected for three weeks, while it is effective in slowing the progression of the disease.
She said the measures put in place to contain the disease would be reviewed "every three weeks" for "probably six months" or more. But "this does not mean that we will remain in total confinement for six months," she said, however. "We can, we hope, gradually adapt certain measures of social distancing and gradually return to normal," she added.
The government decreed a general containment of the population on Monday for at least three weeks, in an attempt to curb the spread of the epidemic which left 1,228 dead and officially contaminated 19,522 people in the United Kingdom, according to a report by the health authorities published Sunday. Earlier today, Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson's right arm warned that the British must prepare for "a long period" of confinement.
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