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Wandsworth City Council in South London tweeted the alert, asking people to draw up an emergency plan and pack useful items such as a flashlight, a first aid kit, a phone charger and a whistle. On Sunday, the authority said the bag would be useful “in case you need to flee your home immediately without time to pack.”
Hundreds of social media users responded to the post, with many saying they were concerned about the alert, while others questioned why they would have to run out of their home during the coronavirus pandemic.
One person said, “Wow. What did I miss? Are we facing an imminent emergency evacuation due to hurricanes / floods / fires / meteor impacts / others?
“Or just scare everyone for no apparent reason?”
A second person said the council should have “considered the anxiety this might cause” before posting the message.
A third person responded to the post saying, “I am not an anxious person, but this is unnecessarily concerning and definitely made me think that something had happened.”
Others criticized the wording and nature of the emergency warning, with one saying she felt “fed up with all the scaremongering” during the COVID-19 epidemic.
He said the council should think about people who have experienced elevated levels of anxiety or mental health issues during the shutdown before releasing a message like this.
Tooting Labor MP Rosena Allin-Khan, a former Wandsworth councilor, agreed that the authority had not provided any context on her message.
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“We are working with our emergency planning team to tweet a day to inform people on how to prepare in different situations.”
Panic comes as millions of Londoners brace for the possibility of tighter coronavirus restrictions this week.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he had drawn up a plan with local council leaders and public health experts to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the capital.
Speaking to Sky News on Monday evening, the Labor mayor said: “In London we know, unfortunately, that this virus is spreading through our city without positive tests showing because the tests in London today are such a disaster as it was in march. .
“We are therefore eager to avoid a second lockdown as we saw in March and April and have put together a package of measures, between parties with various London leaders.
He said the plan included additional rules “to slow the spread of the virus.”
He said London would learn lessons from parts of the northeast and northwest of England that have been shut down locally.
Khan said he hoped the prime minister would invite him to the COBRA emergency meeting on Tuesday to “adultly discuss additional steps we can take to slow the spread” of COVID-19.
When asked if he would like to see a 10pm curfew for bars and restaurants in the city, he said: “The time doesn’t matter, there is nothing magical between 10pm or 11pm.
“The problem is the number of hours that people spend together where they could be asymptomatic and the virus is transmitted.”
He said his action plan included 15 different measures that affect daily life in many ways, from funerals to weddings.
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