SALTBURN BY THE SEA, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 22: A sign in a restaurant window offers Mother's Day take away meals in Saltburn By The Sea as the UK adjusts to life under the Coronavirus pandemic on March 22, 2020 in Saltburn By The Sea, United Kingdom LONDON (AP) — Sunday is Mother’s Day in Britain and the government has a stark message for millions of citizens: Visiting your mom could kill her.
In a message to the nation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson implored Britons to forego the day's traditional family visits, parties and Sunday lunches since authorities could not "disguise or sugarcoat the threat” posed by the coronavirus pandemic. “If your mother is elderly or vulnerable, then I am afraid all the statistics show that she is much more