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UK eyes plan to have over-70s isolate from virus for months

by Associated Press
| March 15, 2020 11:05 AM

LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom plans to escalate its virus-fighting measures, its top health official said Sunday, indicating that Britain is edging closer to tactics adopted by its European neighbors that so far the government has resisted.

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