By Lucy Caulkett-
Boris Johnson has urged the British pubic to stay away from their mothers today and use other means of communication to express their affection for the most important woman in their life .In a powerful letter to the country, the prime minister said:
‘Today is Mother’s Day. It is a day when we celebrate the sacrifice and the effort of those who gave us life. Across the country, I know that millions of people will have been preparing to do something special – not just a card, not just flowers.
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‘I know that everyone’s strongest instinct is to see their mother in person, to have a meal together, to show them how much you love them.
‘But I am afraid that this Mother’s Day the single best present that we can give is to spare them the risk of catching a very dangerous disease.’ As doctors warned that they are facing a ‘tsunami’ of severely ill patients amid chronic shortages of basic equipment, the prime ministers urged Brits to stay away from their mothers today.
Deep fears that unprotected medics could either become desperately ill themselves or become carriers and infect others has heightened the race to take extreme precautionary measures across the country. Hospitals raced to convert operating theatres into intensive care wards and begged vets to hand over ventilators normally used for pets, Mr Johnson pleaded with the public to reduce social interaction even with their mothers.
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‘The best thing is to ring her, video call her, Skype her, but to avoid any unnecessary physical contact or proximity. And why? Because if your mother is elderly or vulnerable, then I am afraid all the statistics show that she is much more likely to die from coronavirus… We cannot disguise or sugar coat the threat’.
Making reference to Italy where the death toll rose by 793 yesterday to 4,825, the Prime Minister said that without a ‘heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread’, it was likely that ‘our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed’. Over 5,000 confirmed cases in the Uk has increased concerns about the spread of the deadly virus in the Uk
The UK had 5,018 confirmed cases of Covid-19 by 9am yesterday, up more than 1,000 from the previous day. Officials said almost 73,000 people have been tested for the virus so far.
To combat the threat, the Government yesterday signed a landmark deal with private hospitals to supply an extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, almost 1,200 more ventilators and 20,000 more staff, including 10,000 nurses and more than 700 doctors.
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