Boris Johnson has announced mass gatherings will no longer be supported by emergency workers to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

The Prime Minister said today: ‘From tomorrow we will no longer be supporting mass gatherings with emergency workers the way that we normally do.’

Mr Johnson added: ‘We want to ensure that this period of shielding, this period of maximum protection, coincides with the peak of the disease and it is now clear that the peak of the epidemic is coming faster in some parts of the country than in others.

‘And it looks as though London is now a few weeks ahead.’

Mr Johnson said that it is ‘important that Londoners now pay special attention about avoiding non-essential contact and to take particularly seriously the advice about working from home and avoiding confined spaces such as pubs and restaurants’.

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