PEOPLE living alone will be allowed to form “support bubbles” with another household from Saturday, PM Boris Johnson announced today in a change he said would help alleviate lockdown loneliness.
At the daily Downing Street press briefing on the coronavirus, he said the move will allow adults living alone or single parents of children aged under 18 to socialise indoors with members of one other household.
They will not be legally obliged to follow the two-metre rule and would be allowed to stay overnight.
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