Boris Johnson was today speaking to supermarket bosses about efforts to keep supplies flowing after yesterday drastically ramped up measures to stem the spread of the deadly infection. In an unprecedented peacetime move the Prime Minister yesterday ordered all pubs, restaurants, clubs, gyms and cinemas and theatres to close. Boris Johnson said that a moral judgment must be made to save potentially thousands of lives. Boris Johnson also told theatres, cinemas, gyms, leisure centres, betting shops, casinos and nightclubs to shut indefinitely to save thousands of lives. Flanking Boris Johnson in Number 10, Mr Sunak hammered home the seriousness of the economic fallout and unveiled the 'unprecedented measures for unprecedented times'.

Source: Daily Mail March 21, 2020 14:15 UTC