Go back to work, try to lead more normal lives: Boris Johnson

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on British public to try and start leing more rmal lives as country starts to grually emerge from coronavirus lockdown.

dressing People's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) on social media, UK prime minister urged people to start going back to work if y can and feel confident to return to shops and restaurants as y begin opening up by following social distancing guidance.

“ best thing is to cautiously go back to work. My mess w would be that if you can go back to work, n, provided your company's obeying guidelines, provided its safe, n you should go back,” he said.

“People should try to le ir lives more rmally… I want to see more people feeling confident to use shops, use restaurants, get back into work. But only if we all follow guidance,” he told People's PMQs on Facebook on Friday.

While highlighting that stay at home lockdown mess was on its way out, he also indicated a rethink on compulsory face coverings and masks in public s besides just public transport in UK.

"I do think we need to be stricter in insisting people wear face coverings in confined s where y are meeting people y don't rmally meet. We are looking at ways of making sure that people really do have face coverings in shops, for instance, where re is a risk of transmission," he said, triggering speculation that UK government was in process of anuncing new rules on face coverings soon.

He also indicated that strict precautions against COVID-19 infections could allow Britain to minimise ecomic disruption in coming months without seeing a second wave of coronavirus and hoped for V-shaped or quick ecomic bounce back.

“I hope that we'll have as V-shaped a recovery as possible but we simply can't be certain,” he said.

UK prime minister also rejected demands to extend furlough or Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme beyond October and said government's “vision is to keep this ecomy moving as fast as we possibly can, given difficulties that we're in”.

He pointed to plans to invest hundreds of billions of pounds in infrastructure projects to boost productivity, as well as schemes designed to protect jobs, anunced earlier this week by UK Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

“We are going to continue in a balanced way safely and cautiously to reopen our ecomy and get things moving as fast as we can. What we want to do is create an environment in which our businesses and our enterprises, feel confident to invest in UK for long term,” he said.

Indicating that localised lockdowns may have to be used, he also warned that a full national lockdown could return if next st of pandemic, which has claimed over 44,000 lives in UK, is t carefully mand.

“Obviously you have to keep in reserve ultimate tool, national lockdown. But body wants to do that ever again,” he said.