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10.58am GMT
Overall probably around one percent of the people who get the virus may end up dying as a result, the press conference is told by Britain’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty.
Who are in that group? “It goes up a bit among people who are older and a bit more vulnerable,” says Whitty.
10.52am GMT
There is a question to Johnson and the health service civil servants flanking him about whether the virus will get bigger than efforts to contain it.
The answer is that it’s too early to say, replies Johnson.
