Prime Minister Boris Johnson has addressed the nation from Downing Street in his first public speech since he was hospitalised with coronavirus earlier this month.

Speaking outside Downing Street, he said that the health crisis is the biggest challenge the UK has faced since the Second World War.

He insisted that the country was beginning to "turn the tide" against the virus. But he warned of a potential second spike in infections as he refused to announce a date for when the lockdown might be lifted.

He said it wasn't possible yet to give a possible end date as the nation was currently at the point of "maximum risk". Describing his own coronavirus struggle, he compared the disease to "a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible

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