Ambulance worker urges people to stay home in Facebook video after seeing people in beer garden

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‘What’s it going to take for you to understand how bad this is?’ Frustrated ambulance worker films plea for people to stay in after spotting people sitting outside a shut pub drinking and flouting lockdown rules

  • Ambulance worker Sophie-Louise Dennis, 31, urged people to stay at home in Facebook video
  • She saw ten-to-15 people in a beer garden on Tonbridge Road, Maidstone
  • Sophie-Louise can’t remember the last time she didn’t cry on her way to work 

By Sam Baker For Mailonline

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An ambulance worker from Kent has urged people to stay at home after she passed people drinking in a pub garden.

Sophie-Louise Dennis, 31, posted a video of herself to Facebook on Sunday in a plea to make people follow lockdown rules.

She says she drove past a group of ten-to-15 people drinking in a beer garden of a shut pub on Tonbridge Road, Maidstone. 

‘We drive past a pub,’ she says ‘and witness people that have bought their own alcohol and are now sitting in a pub garden – there must be about 10-15 of them. 

‘What don’t you get about this virus? This virus is deadly. Now it could kill you, it could kill your loved ones. Now, we are out here risking our lives to save you, to save your loved ones.’

Sophie-Louise works as an Emergency Care Assistant in London and Maidstone for Kent Central Ambulance Service.

There are currently 52,290 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and 5,373 deaths.

In the video, Sophie-Louise says she is scared to go to work: ‘We are fearful every day, absolutely petrified driving to work. I can’t remember the last time I drove to work without crying. 

The 31-year-old described seeing a group sat outside of a closed pub drinking alcohol they had bought themselves

Sophie-Louise Dennis is an ambulance worker and she saw a group of ten-to-15 people drinking in a beer garden on Tonbridge Road, Maidstone

When can I leave my house during lockdown? 

The Government has advised people to stay at home unless is it absolutely essential that you go out.

The four main essential forms of travel are: 

  •  Shopping for necessities like food and medicine
  • One form of exercise a day alone or with your household
  • Any medical need or to escape harm
  • Travelling to work – but only if working from home is not an option

Source: gov.uk 

‘What don’t you understand? The more you keep going out, the longer we are going to be in lockdown and the worse it’s going to get.

‘What’s it going to take for you to understand how bad this is? I cannot stress this enough: please stay in.’

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care with coronavirus last night after his health dramatically worsened.

Doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in London took the drastic step because the 55-year-old was struggling to breathe.

The PM is still battling coronavirus in intensive care today with ‘no change’ in his condition overnight – amid a wave of support from across the nation.