Millions of Britons heeded the Government’s social distancing advice and stayed inside on Saturday morning, despite the warm spring weather in many areas.
Normally bustling parks and street markets were quiet with police watching out for groups to disperse and shoppers and those out for exercise urged to return home as quickly as they could.
A police officer asks people to leave the beach in Brighton (Gareth Fuller/PA)
A lone cyclist passes Manchester Central Convention Centre which is to be turned into a coronavirus field hospital (Martin Rickett/PA)
A member of the public walks past the fox and the girl wooden sculptures by Tom Harvey in Regent’s Park, London (John Walton/PA)
A marketplace operates an entry system in Grantham, Lincolnshire (Mike Egerton/PA)
Customers were keeping their distance (Mike Egerton/PA)
Members of the public exercise in Primrose Hill, London (John Walton/PA)
Only few shoppers were tempted by the marketplace in Oakham, Rutland (Mike Egerton/PA)
