Britain on Sunday said its criticised plan to deal with coronavirus was designed to "protect life" in a "sustainable" manner as it prepared to unveil "wartime-style" measures to tackle the outbreak. "We are absolutely ready to do that," he told Sky News's Sophy Ridge. "We'll take the right action at the right time," he said, adding "the time is coming." "The goal here is to protect life, the measures have to be sustainable," he later told the BBC. Hancock told Sky that herd immunity was "not our goal" and that "our policy is to protect lives".

Source: News 24 March 15, 2020 12:11 UTC