Boris Johnson holds press conference on new local lockdown measures – watch live

Boris Johnson holds a news conference on the tightening of restrictions in swathes of northern England

[obsoleteworlds]

Is anyone ever going to ask the question of teacher's safety? I hear again and again how children's education must be prioritised and that's fine but nothing from any government in any country about how teachers, the most at risk people in the school environment, are expected to protect themselves. When the teachers all get sick how are the schools going to run then?

[stumetallicafan]

7 people died in Taiwan, a population of approx 24 million . To social distance you would literally have to stand in the ocean . Other countries were similar .

[DABOXASH]

And in other news, 80 thousand people die from smoking each year, but we ignore those statistics...we make too much revenue there. 🤫💰

[marco]

When do you think the NHS will be able to do face to face appointments again?

[ApolloXL]

Hands! Face! Space!

Take a shot every time you hear this slogan.

[sae]

Whitty talks about limiting social interactions and how this is leading to an increase in the infection rate. Why are pubs open then?

[MaestrLiendre]

Could someone inform Boris that hairdressers & barbers are back open? Thanks.

[PreeyenMistry]

People: mad at the restrictions
Also people: not following guidelines and not using common sense

Absolutely hilarious, undoing the initial quarantine, we will have the highest rate of many countries for a long time because the public can't follow basic rules.

[roymichaeldeanable]

67 million people, 500, 000 pass away every year normally, and the country is in partial lockdown over 13

[rammen]

Bots in the comments claiming covids not real again.

[markreynolds]

With regards to the question whether summer was cancelled. His answer was no, followed by "i dont think so" he just keeps making answers up, and when he cant think of an answer he repeats the wash hands, social distance blah, blah, blah slogan and has now shortened it to hands, face and space. Just a shambles when it comes to press conference like others from the cabinet. At least the scientist speak common sense?

[dm]

He mentions Asia and Europe and doesn't mention the U.S. Trump Ally?

[terrynoonan]

Im a Little Confused.
Boris is My MP So I Dont Want To Slate Him But Didnt Recently Bournemouth Become Overun With Visitors And No Major Outbreak Resulted.
So Lets Have Dose Of Common Sense and Get This Country Up and Running Again!

[andrewmckinlay]

Anybody who thinks that this video is misleading and full of lies, report it to you tube!

[l.aw.t]

So they open schools it dose not make sence

[FredGumbo]

The Bucket that Boris got accidentally trapped on his foot last January is still stuck firmly on the end one or other of his legs to this very day - despite having been removed 179 times!

[jR-svbp]

I like Boris but tbh I think he is a troubled Man. This Was a Stressful briefing, from what I Percieve. Stop Knocking him okay because no one knows the actual facts of the situation. We all Could Make tax less assumptions. It's not about Control, it's about Safety and the best we can do .

[tonywalker]

It's all about power profit control ...

[robc]

Finally! (2nd time) I had - wash hands/wear mask/social distance few weeks back - cudos.