The latest announcement in the UK’s coronavirus strategy puts major restrictions on when and where we can shop.

With the places we socialise and exercise already closed, and flights around the world cancelled, there are likely to be major changes in our spending habits in the coming weeks.

But what do Britons usually spend their money on?

According to the Office of National Statistics, between April 2018 and March 2019, average weekly household spending in the UK was £585.60., external

This includes money for rent or mortgage payments, bills, and food, among other essentials. But it also reveals the areas where spending is likely to shift amid the outbreak.

On average, households spent some 13.1% of their weekly expenditure - or £76.90 - on recreation and culture. This includes things like package holidays, gym membership, cinema trips and admission to clubs.

They also spent some £51.30 on restaurants and hotels, and £24.40 on clothing and footwear each week. On average, households spent £23 on furniture and furnishings, and £3.70 on household appliances.

It was "unthinkable" when the virus first emerged in China that we would now be in this situation, the BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh says.

But there was a turning point last Monday when analysis showed that unless we switched to total suppression we’d be faced with massive loss of life.

It looks like we're about two weeks behind Italy.

“Italy reached 233 deaths on 7 March, 15 days after the first death. On 21 March, the UK reached the same total, 14 days behind Italy," our correspondent said.

“Avoid all unnecessary contact... It really can bear down on the virus immensely."

The big news here in the UK tonight is Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of tough new restrictions for the country, in place for at least three weeks from this evening.

Here's part of his address from earlier.

The new restrictions announced by the prime minister come after warnings on Sunday that the UK might go further in enforcing social distancing measures.

"If you don't do it responsibly...we will have to bring forward further measures," Boris Johnson said.

It comes after pictures showed people across parts of the UK visiting parks and open spaces in large numbers over the weekend.

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Getty

Image source, Getty Images

Vicki Young
Chief Political Correspondent

This is not an address that Boris Johnson or any UK prime minister would ever think they'd have to make.

He has been reluctant to bring in these measures but he's said he thinks that the UK, particularly London, is maybe two weeks behind Italy and we've seen the increase in deaths there.

There's a view that people haven't been taking the advice as seriously as hoped - we saw that in the pictures from tourist destinations like Snowdonia over the weekend.

Image source, SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY

There was a real concern in Downing Street that they had to act now.

It seems incredible to think there could be any more measures than this but if you look at other European countries there are curfews, parks have been closed and people need paperwork to leave their houses.

Daniel Sandford
Home Affairs Correspondent

Senior police officers are reluctant to get involved in continental-style enforcement, they want to police by consent.

They will have the power to fine but they are hoping to do this by persuasion.

This is not a revenue-raising exercise, it's about trying to make sure those shops are shut and gatherings don't take place.

The police are also expecting to lose a lot of their officers due to illness or family illness over the coming weeks.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

Ministers and officials have become concerned about reports of people failing to observe the advice about social distancing.

The sunny weather at the weekend led to people flocking to parks and other outdoor places to enjoy the start of spring, while images of commuters packed on to trains have also raised alarm.

The figures show the number of positive cases are beginning to rise quickly and there is a desire - now we have gone down this route - that the gains from reducing social contact are maximised.

If we halve exposure, new infections could fall by more than 95%. Scientists currently believe that each person with coronavirus infects 2.5 people and that takes about five days. Thirty days after that first infection, that means more than 400 people will be infected.

But if we all reduce our exposure by half, after 30 days, that first infection would have led to only 15 infections.

If you’re just joining us, UK PM Boris Johnson has just announced a major ramping up of coronavirus measures.

Here are the major points of his speech:

• From tonight, people in Britain will be allowed to leave their homes for only “very limited purposes” - shopping for basic necessities; for one form of exercise a day; for any medical need; and to travel to and from work when “absolutely necessary”
• People are warned not to meet friends or family members who they do not live with
• Shopping is only permitted for essentials like food and medicine, and people are advised to do it “as little as you can”
• Police have powers to enforce the rules, including through fines and dispersing gatherings
• All shops selling non-essential goods, such as clothing and electronic stores, are ordered to close
• Libraries, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship are to close
• All gatherings of more than two people in public - excluding people you live with - are banned
• All social events, including weddings and baptisms are banned
• Funerals are not included in the new restrictions
• Parks will remain open for exercise but gatherings will be dispersed
• Restrictions “under constant review” and will be checked again in three weeks. They will be relaxed “if the evidence shows we are able to”

Mr Johnson says there is a "clear way through", saying 7,500 former clinicians are now coming back to the NHS.

"With the time you buy – by simply staying at home - we are increasing our stocks of equipment," he says.

He says the government is buying millions of testing kits.

"I want to thank everyone who is working flat out to beat the virus," he says. "Everyone from the supermarket staff, to the transport workers, to the carers, to the nurses and doctors on the front line."

But he says that "each and every one of us is now obliged to join together".

Mr Johnson finishes his speech by saying he knows that, as they have done in the past, "the people of this country will rise to that challenge".

"And we will come through it stronger than ever. We will beat the coronavirus and we will beat it together.

"And therefore I urge you at this moment of national emergency to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives."

"No prime minister wants to enact measures like this," says Mr Johnson.

"I know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people’s lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.

"And that’s why we have produced a huge and unprecedented programme of support both for workers and for business."

He adds: "And I can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.

"But at present there are just no easy options. The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost."

From tonight, people will be allowed to leave their homes for:

• shopping for basic necessities, as infrequently as possible
• one form of exercise a day - for example a run, walk, or cycle, alone or with members of their household;
• any medical need, to provide care or to help a vulnerable person;
• travelling to and from work, but only where it is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home

Mr Johnson says the government will immediately:

• close all shops selling non-essential goods,​ including clothing and electronic stores - as well as other premises like libraries, playgrounds and outdoor gyms, and places of worship
• stop all gatherings of more than two people in public – excluding people you live with
• stop all social events​, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies, but allow funerals

Parks will remain open for exercise but gatherings will be dispersed, he says.

Boris Johnson says people should not be meeting their friends - and if they are asked to meet up, they should say no.

People should not meet family members outside their home, he says, or go shopping for anything except for essentials like food or medicine.

"If you don’t follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings," he adds.

Boris Johnson has just announced a raft of restrictions people in the UK are being urged to follow.

From tonight, people will be allowed to leave their homes for:

• shopping for basic necessities, as infrequently as possible
• one form of exercise a day - for example a run, walk, or cycle, alone or with members of their household;
• any medical need, to provide care or to help a vulnerable person;
• travelling to and from work, but only where it is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home

This is not a lockdown, but it's as close as you can get to one without it being called a lockdown.

"From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction - you must stay at home," says Mr Johnson, speaking to the UK.

"Because the critical thing we must do is stop the disease spreading between households."

He says that is why people will only be able to leave home for very limited purposes.

Mr Johnson says it is "vital" to slow the spread of the virus, to "reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time, so we can protect the NHS’s ability to cope - and save more lives".

"And that’s why we have been asking people to stay at home during this pandemic," he says.

"And though huge numbers are complying – and I thank you all - the time has now come for us all to do more."

Speaking to the nation, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the coronavirus is "the biggest threat this country has faced for decades".

He says "without a huge national effort" there will come a time when "no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses".

"To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it - meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well."

The British prime minister is beginning his address from Downing Street, which is likely to address new measures to fight the coronavirus crisis that has so far killed 335 people in the UK, and close to 15,000 worldwide.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will begin his statement on the UK's response to the coronavirus outbreak in five minutes at 20.30 GMT.

You can watch his statement at the top of this page, and (in the UK) on a live special programme on BBC One.

Image source, Getty Images

• Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro revoked a decree he had issued hours earlier that would permit companies to suspend employment contracts for four months without wages, a controversial measure that was strongly criticised
• Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said, on Sunday, the country would pay the salaries of employees at small- and medium-size companies hit by the country’s lockdown. He did not specify where the money would come from
• Prosecutors in Chile have requested security camera footage from a Santiago clinic after a man was accused of coughing into the face of a nurse deliberately last week, reportedly after refusing to pay for his test.

• Ecuador's military has been permitted to take over the province of Guayas, where almost 80% of the country’s confirmed cases have been found. Three mayors there have tested positive for the virus, according El Comercio newspaper

If you're just joining us, we're awaiting a TV address from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 20.30 GMT.

It comes after the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK rose earlier to 6,650, up 967 from yesterday’s total.