The UK may have left it 'too late' to impose a coronavirus lockdown and stop millions of people getting COVID-19

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• The UK needs to 'radically change direction' and start doing far more tests for possible cases of the coronavirus, according to the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
• Boris Johnson announced strict new lockdown measures on Monday, meaning people are only allowed to leave their homes to pick up essential supplies and exercise once a day.
• But Hunt, speaking before the lockdown was announced, said the UK needed to introduce testing as well as new social distancing rules, warning that up to a million people could be infected by the end of next week and said the UK lockdown may be "too late."
• He said: 'How can we possibly suppress the virus if we do not know where it is?'
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The UK government may have left it "too late" to impose its national coronavirus lockdown, with around one million people likely already infected by next week, the UK's former health secretary has warned.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday evening announced a strict national lockdown, which means people are only allowed to leave their homes to buy essential supplies and to exercise once a day.

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