British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered schools closed across the United Kingdom beginning Friday. Johnson reversed course this week after initially favoring a strategy to let the virus burn rapidly through the population in order to build “herd immunity.” He abandoned the approach after a study estimated that, without mitigation, a quarter of a million Britons could die.
British PM Boris Johnson Closes Schools After Reversing Lax Virus Containment Plan
HeadlineMar 19, 2020
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