UK’s Johnson Announces 4-Week National Lockdown – “Nonessential” Businesses to Close, Movement Restrictions

Well, he did it …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday that the UK will go under a 4 week lockdown as cases in Britain climb north of the 1 million mark.

The UK’s second shutdown will begin on Thursday, forcing bars, restaurants and “nonessential” stores to close while forcing people to stay home with a few exceptions.

“Now is the time to take action because there is no alternative,” Johnson said during his lockdown announcement. “From Thursday until the start of December you must stay at home.”

According to the Prime Minister, the only exceptions for not being home is for education, work, exercise, shopping for essentials, and caring for vulnerable people.

Schools and Universities will remain opening as the UK will roughly follow the lockdowns of France and Germany, Johnson said.

The UK lockdown was entirely expected, as PFW presented earlier today with this reporting from RT:

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly impose a national lockdown next week after his scientific advisers warned that the NHS could be overwhelmed by mid-December and more than 85,000 people could die this winter.

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The disturbing reports come after the SAGE committee presented 10 Downing Street with a bleak assessment that the coronavirus is spreading “significantly” faster than their original “worst-case scenario” predictions, and if it continues on its current track would kill more than 85,000 this winter.

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The scientists, led by Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, have warned Johnson that all hospitals in England will be full by December 17.

The decision comes just weeks after PM Johnson said a second national lockdown would “be completely wrong” for the country and likened such a decision to a “disaster.”

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