Over-70s could be quarantined for up to four months - even if they're not ill as government plans series of unprecedented measures to tackle coronavirus outbreak.
Over-70s in Britain could be told to self-isolate for up to four months - even if they're not ill - in a wartime-like mobilisation by the government designed to help manage the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19.
The move, which would see a mass quarantining of the elderly, could be enforced in the next 20 days and would form part of a series of measures unprecedented in peacetime Britain.
According to reports by ITV's Robert Peston, the strategy is the latest phase in the battle to stop the coronavirus bringing the NHS to its knees.
The plans are understood to be the combined work of the prime minister, health secretary, chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser.
Over-70s in Britain could be told to self-isolate for up to four months - even if they're not ill - in a wartime-like mobilisation by the government designed to help manage the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19.
The move, which would see a mass quarantining of the elderly, could be enforced in the next 20 days and would form part of a series of measures unprecedented in peacetime Britain.
According to reports by ITV's Robert Peston, the strategy is the latest phase in the battle to stop the coronavirus bringing the NHS to its knees.
The plans are understood to be the combined work of the prime minister, health secretary, chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser.
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