Coronavirus news: UK death toll reaches 35 as Hancock warns 'every single person in this country will be affected' and Germany shuts borders
Coronavirus news: UK death toll reaches 35 as Hancock warns 'every single person in this country will be affected' and Germany shuts borders NewsColony Scotland not planning to isolate over-70s, country’s health secretary says Scotland’s health secretary has said Scotland is not planning on isolating over-70s to protect them from coronavirus. In contrast to potential measures revealed by UK health secretary Matt Hancock, Jeane Freeman said the Scottish government would ask the elderly to “reduce social contact” instead. “The additional measures that we’ve always talked about are about reducing contact for those over 70 and in their eighties, asking them to reduce their social contact because they are one of the groups who are most at risk of this virus making them seriously ill,” Ms Freeman, the Scottish counterpart to Mr Hancock, said. “The other group is people who have underlying health conditions whose immune system is suppressed.” She added: “It’s no...