AdvertisementBrits are threatening to boycott JD Wetherspoon today after its chairman refused to shut pubs and claimed there have been 'no transmissions of coronavirus in bars'. The Mayor of London has since threatened to ban people from pubs, warning he will 'infringe' human rights if necessary. 'Our main desire is that pubs should remain open, rather in the way that Parliament has remained open,' he said. Some London pubs are packed. And he said the first UK patient was going through a randomised trial of a drug to treat coronavirus.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2020 03:51 UTC