England is likely to have to follow Scotland in imposing a ban on visiting between households, Boris Johnson has been told by his chief medical officer.
Chris Whitty is understood to believe that further restrictions in England are inevitable as winter approaches and that measures including a 10pm curfew will not bring the epidemic under control.
Mr Johnson claimed to have struck a “delicate balance” between virus control and “sheltering the economy”. This was undermined when Nicola Sturgeon said that advice from Scotland’s chief medical officer and national clinical director was that the prime minister’s package “on its own will not be sufficient to bring the R number down”.
As she justified a ban north of the border on visiting other households, Scotland’s first
