Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned supermarket shoppers that Covid-19 can also be contracted by handling goods someone else with the virus has previously touched.
Speaking during a Downing Street press conference this afternoon, the PM said social distancing at a supermarket isn't enough as transmission occurs through the handling of products too. "Please remember that this disease can be passed on not just by standing too near to someone in a supermarket queue, but also by handling something touched by an infected person," he said. "Remember also that one in three people with Covid-19 have no symptoms and that's why the original message of hands, face, space is as important now as it has ever been." The Prime Minister spoke as a