They should also reduce contacts and observe social distancing.
Stay at home, reduce contacts and observe social distancing, even at home.
That's the advice to over 70s and the medically vulnerable as part of the local lockdown which came into operation at midnight.
However, they are not being asked to cocoon.
Una Molloy is Director of Public Health Medicine in the Midlands.
She says this group are now being asked to exercise their individual judgement:
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