PM promises four-week lockdown is long enough to save Christmas

Описание: BORIS Johnson today promised a four-week lockdown IS enough to tackle the coronavirus and save Christmas.

But he warned everyone must work together to put covid “back in its box” if they want “as normal a Christmas as possible”.

He addressed the nation at a press conference hours after pubs, restaurants, non-essential retail and most other businesses were forced to close today and Brits were given fresh stay at home orders for four weeks.

The Prime Minister insisted there was “light at the end of the tunnel” and the country would return to the tiered system of local lockdowns after four weeks - after ministers suggested restrictions could be extended.

Mr Johnson told the nation: "These measures, though tough, are time limited.

"The advice I have received suggests that four weeks is enough for these measures to make a real impact.

"There is light at the end of the tunnel."

And on the holiday period, he gave the nation a glimmer of hope as they entered four weeks of tough rules, saying: "We can do this and we will do this by 2 Dec.

"I have no doubt people will be able to have as normal a Christmas as possible and we will be able to get things open before Christmas as well."

Ministers are working on a joint approach to Christmas so that families can come together wherever they live in the UK.

But it's only by working together and sticking to the rules can the nation celebrate properly this year, the PM warned.

He acknowledged that the nation was "anxious, weary and quite frankly, fed up with the very mention of this virus."

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