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For any copyright, please send me a message. The government is "looking at" the isolation of whole households during the coronavirus outbreak, its chief scientific adviser has told Sky News. Sir Patrick Vallance said the "more extreme" action was being modelled by the government as it considers options to deal with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Latest figures show there have been 116 cases of COVID-19 in the UK, which has more than doubled in the last 48 hours. This is out of nearly 18,000 people tested. One woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions has died after catching coronavirus. Sir Patrick, who is helping to coordinate the UK's response to the virus as the government's chief scientific adviser, offered his "sincere condolences" to the woman's relatives and friends. He confirmed the government is preparing to move to the "delay" stage of its four-phase approach to coronavirus, which involves attempting to suppress the peak of a mass outbreak in the UK. On Thursday night, the government updated travel advice for those who have returned from Italy within the last two weeks. Those who have come back from the country and develop symptoms, however mild, should self-isolate and call the NHS on 111. And those who have returned from specific lockdown areas in Italy should self-isolate and call 111 even if they don't have symptoms. Sir Patrick described self-isolation as "really critical" and "a very key part of what can be done". Describing what further action might be taken by the government, Sir Patrick told Sky News: "There are then more extreme versions when you think about households isolating as well. "Self-isolation is possibly usually within houses, it means that you stay in your room, you get things delivered to it and stay there for 14 days. "Household isolation would mean the household - that's obviously an more extreme move. "Again, we're modelling that we're looking at that in terms of what the options might be." But Sir Patrick stressed it is "important these measures aren't taken too early". "It's difficult, if you go too early you ask people to do things which aren't effective for too long, by which time it becomes difficult to get the right motivation to do it," he said. "If you do it too late, then obviously you've missed the chance to make the big difference. "So the timing of this is really, really important." In other developments:Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the government is not considering stopping flights into the UKMore than 140 Britons are stranded on a cruise ship off California's coastOne of the first Britons to suffer from coronavirus tells Sky News how he went from "a bit sniffly" to being unable to breatheReligious groups issue gu
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