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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to come up with a coronavirus warning system when he describes his plans to gradually ease the blockage while abandoning the “stay home” slogan.
Instead, Johnson will tell the country to “stay alert, control the virus, and save lives” when he describes his “road map” to new normalcy during a speech in the nation.
He plans to urge workers who are unable to do their work from home to begin returning to their workplaces while following the rules for social distancing.
“This is the dangerous part,” he warned before the announcement.
It is understood that a warning system administered by a new “joint biosecurity center” will detect local increases in infection rates, in order to locally alter restrictions in England.
With alerts ranging from green at level one to red at level five, Johnson is expected to say the nation is close to going from four to three.
Johnson will chair an emergency Cobra committee meeting with cabinet ministers, delegate nation leaders and London Mayor Sadiq Khan before his prerecorded speech at 7pm.
Tomorrow, the British government will release a 50-page document outlining the complete plan to cautiously restart the economy for MPs after figures suggested that the total death toll in the UK exceeded 36,500.
The change in messaging will come amid concerns that workers may not feel comfortable returning to work after weeks of firm instructions to “stay home, protect the NHS, save lives.”
That could be a test for ministers, as unions warn that they may not recommend their members to millions of people to resume their functions if security is not guaranteed.
“The union movement wants to be able to recommend plans for the government to return to work,” wrote Unison, Unite, GMB, Usdaw and the Congress of Trade Unions in a letter to the Observer.
“But for us to do that we need to make sure that ministers have listened and that we stay safe and also save lives at work.”
Meanwhile, a scientific adviser to the UK government told the Sunday Times that the UK could still suffer more than 100,000 deaths by the end of the year if the measures are hastily relaxed, adding: “There is very limited leeway.” .
Johnson acknowledged the magnitude of the danger and said “we will have to work even harder to take each step correctly” now that the peak is passed, before making a mountaineering analogy.
“You have very few options to climb, but on the descent you must make sure you don’t run too fast, lose control and stumble,” he told the Sun newspaper.
Later this week, Johnson will address the 1922 Banking Conservatives Committee amid concern that some of his MPs will not be confused by the gradual relaxation.
Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said at the Downing Street briefing that Mr. Johnson would proceed with “extreme caution.”
The incoming changes for England were expected to be very modest, with a lift to the limit of only one form of exercise per day and to allow the garden centers to reopen.
But in a tightening of the measures, fines will be fined for those who don’t follow the rules.
Shapps did not deny that the ministers were planning to impose a 14-day quarantine on people arriving in the UK by plane from any country other than the Republic of Ireland.
He declined to respond to widespread calls for clarity, as it is unclear whether the rule would also apply to passengers arriving by boat and whether companies would receive additional support for fear that the move would be disastrous for the industry.
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