Johnson calls for Britons to stay at home despite the decline in the Corona outbreak

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons on Friday to stay home and not go out at the weekend, despite indications that the deadly virus had receded, according to Bloomberg News.

And Bloomberg said government figures referring to the so-called R rate for estimating the number of people who transmit the disease to others have decreased slightly in England, and may have reached less than 1 in London.

The British capital was one of the regions most affected by the new mutated strain of the fast-spreading virus and was subject to the strictest restrictions of closure due to the pandemic last November and most of December.

Johnson said in a video message posted on the social networking site "Twitter" today, Friday: "Please think really twice before leaving the house this weekend, and only go out if it is absolutely necessary ... It is safer to assume that you may have Covid 19 ».

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