Tubes, trains and buses are still rammed on day one among UK lockdown despite biggest peacetime shutdown ever... as NHS worker pleads with Sadiq Khan to extend services and Boris Johnson to 'police who gets on' at stationsBritons should only visit and from work if it's 'absolutely necessary' and it can't be done reception
PM said for a minimum of 3 weeks people should only leave for essential goods, medical needs, or brief exercise
London's transport network full again today - people packed like sardines on reduced train and bus services
NHS sonographer Nicola Smith tweeted: 'I love my job, but now I'm risking my health just on the journey in?! '
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London's Tube network was packed during hour again today despite Boris Johnson's historic decision to pack up Britain due to coronavirus with NHS workers saying their lives are being put in danger as they head bent treat patients.
Travellers within the capital were never ready to stick with social distancing on their Tube journey to figure this morning, hours after the Prime Minister warned about essential workers to remain reception .
Many people were nose-to-nose with people on the Tube, trains and buses also as platforms despite being told to be two metres apart to avoid catching coronavirus, which has claimed 335 lives thus far .
Sharing a horrifying picture, NHS sonographer Nicola Smith tweeted: 'This is my tube this morning. I sleep in zone 4 and add a zone 1 hospital. i really like my job, but now I'm risking my health just on the journey in?! @SadiqKhan put the tube service back to normal so we will all opened up , or @BorisJohnson start policing who's aged . Help me!'.
After completing her journey to the Imperial College NHS Trust in west London, she said: 'Seats on the train all had a minimum of one person so people needed to face . I worry for my health more on my commute than actually being within the hospital.'
Ms Harris said the reduction in Transport for London services meant 'you now have more people waiting and piling onto the tubes and trains. the difficulty is vital workers aren't just health professionals - i feel we under-estimated what percentage people are needed to stay things running.'
Robert Tay, from Romford, took an image of a packed London bus this morning and said: '@BorisJohnson @TfL @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan Are you seriously telling me this is often a bus filled with 'key workers'?'
Chris Kaye-York filmed many people rushing through a London Tube station's ticket barriers and said: 'Still? Really? Get a grip'.
Aslef union organiser Finn Brennan wrote: 'Getting many reports of early trains being full on the Underground. If the govt doesn't shut construction sites and pay self employment, people will die'.
But Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said today that 20 per cent of Transport for London staff are now off work because they're either unwell or self-isolating, and said: 'It is just impossible for us to extend train and bus services'. He added: 'I cannot say this more strongly: we must stop all non-essential use of conveyance now. Employers: please support your staff to figure from home unless it's absolutely necessary. Ignoring these rules means more lives lost'.
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