The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus could force the United Kingdom to implement sweeping restrictions on travel and place cities on lockdown, the country’s health secretary suggested in an interview Sunday, in the starkest admission yet on what London might do curb the spread of the virus.
Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, said that officials wouldn’t take anything “off the table at this stage” when he was asked about whether the country would consider a Wuhan, China-style, quarantine of large cities.
