中文版
晚上好，與新冠病毒的鬥爭是我一生中面臨的最大的單一危機。在不到一年的時間裡，這種疾病已經殺死了將近一百萬人，並給世界各地的經濟造成了嚴重破壞。
在英國，我們沉痛哀悼每個失去的人，並對他們的家人感到悲傷。然而，我比以往任何時候都更加堅信，這將是人類必將贏得的鬥爭，而我們這個國家的人民將會贏得勝利，並且要實現我們今天晚上必須直接與您談談我們面臨的選擇的目標，這不是一個簡單的事情，這也是為什麼我們必須立即採取行動。
我知道我們可以成功，因為我們之前已經成功過。當疾病在這個國家的春季肆虐時，我們本著民族犧牲和社區精神團結在一起。我們遵循了這封信的指導。我們呆在家裡，保護NHS國民保健系統，挽救了數千人的生命。
幾個月以來，隨著這些與社會隔離的學科的發展，我們一直將這種病毒拒之門外。但是我們必須承認，這是一個偉大而熱愛自由的國家。儘管絕大多數人都遵守了規則，但違反規則的人也是存在的–我們看不見的敵人有太多的機會無法察覺。該病毒已開始以指數方式傳播。感染上升，住院人數上升。太多數據都在上升。
我們可以看到法國和西班牙發生了什麼，可惜，我們知道，這種病毒現在的致命性不亞於春季時節，而且我們絕大多數人也同樣容易受到感染，而且數據正從圖表中向我們大聲警告，我們有太多的死亡危險，更多的家庭在失去親人；
我知道，面對這種風險，英國人民將希望其政府繼續為保護他們自己而戰，這就是我們日以繼夜地在做的事情。但是，我們帶給這場鬥爭的最大武器是人民自己的衛生常識–這個國家共同決心共同努力制止現在的敵人。
因此，今天我提出了一系列在英格蘭採取的強硬措施–提前關閉酒吧，調整服務；關閉不安全的企業；擴大使用口罩，對不遵守規定的人處以新的罰款；並再次要求辦公室工作人員在家辦公，要求所有人執行六人限制令在室內和室外的禁令規定，這將是一項更嚴格的國家措施，我們可能會對已經處于禁閉狀態的地區實施更嚴格的地方限制。我認為這些方法-既穩健又適度-並已經得到議會所有主要政黨的支持。
與下級政府的同事討論後，我相信這種廣泛的方法在整個英國是共享的。對於那些說我們不需要這些防護措施的人，我們應該讓人們自己去承擔風險，因為這些風險不是我們自己的。悲慘的現實是您的輕微咳嗽可能是別人一生的喪鐘。
關於我們應該繼續將老年人和弱勢群體的保護放在前面，我必須告訴你因為果病毒席捲其他人群也不可避免地會影響到老年人。這就是為什麼我們現在需要抑制這種病毒的原因，對於那些可能會繼續違反規則的少數群體，我們將對這些規則實施更嚴厲的處罰，並處以最高10,000英鎊的罰款。我們將在街上派出更多警察，並在必要時動用軍隊來維護治安。
當然，我個人很不情願做出任何這樣的施加或侵犯任何人的自由，但是除非我們採取行動，否則的危險是，當死亡人數已經增加並且我們不得不面臨一個更大的目標時，我們將必須採取更強硬的措施。像我們在春季那樣感染了大量病例。
如果我們現在對這種病毒失去控制，那將意味著我們的NHS再也沒有醫療空間來應對癌症患者和數百萬其他非共病醫療需求。如果我們被迫實行新的全國封鎖，那將不僅威脅到工作和生計，而且還將威脅到我們所有人與親朋好友接觸。這將意味著對老年人和弱勢群體重新產生孤獨感和封閉感，最終將再次威脅到我們孩子的教育。我們必須盡力避免再次走這條路。
但是，如果人們不遵守我們制定的規則，那麼我們必須保留進一步發展的權利。我們現在必須採取行動，一步一個腳印穩中求進；這樣我們就可以使人們工作，我們的商業和學校都可以開門，我們可以在共同努力遏制該病毒的同時保持我們的國家向前發展。
這是我們的策略，如果我們可以一起執行此計劃，那麼我知道我們可以成功，因為在很多方面我們比以前做得更好。我們現在有足夠的個人防護設備，醫院有床鋪，隔離有夜鶯南丁格爾醫院，我們有新藥-在這個國家有多個疫苗正在研製-它們可以幫助挽救生命。
儘管我們的醫生和醫療顧問現在對數據以及冬天帶來的風險表示擔憂，但他們一致認為，到了春季，情況會好得多，因為我們不僅希望接種疫苗，而且很快就會有這麼一天的到來。雖然我必須強調，我們還不沒有通過質量檢測有效疫苗，但是人民將可以得到快速有效的檢測，人們可以在幾分鐘內進行測試，以便他們可以做更多自己喜歡的事情。那是希望；那便是夢想。
也許這很困難，但是可以實現，而且我們正在為達到這個目標而竭盡全力。
但是，在我們這樣做之前，我們必須依靠我們的意願互相照顧，互相保護。在我們的歷史上，我們的集體命運和集體健康從來沒有如此完全取決於我們每一個人的個人行為。
如果我們一起遵循這些簡單的規則，我們將一起度過這個冬天。雖然不可否認的是我們將會面臨艱難的幾個月。
我們與新冠病毒的戰鬥還沒有結束。但是毫無疑問的是，未來終究會是美好的。現在是我們所有人吹響集結號的時候了，讓我們匯聚召集我們的堅韌，決心和團結精神，一起戰勝病毒！
英文版
Good evening, the struggle against covid is the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime.
In less than a year this disease has killed almost a million people, and caused havoc to economies everywhere.
Here in the UK we mourn every person we have lost, and we grieve with their families.
And yet I am more certain than ever that this is a struggle that humanity will win, and we in this country will win – and to achieve what we must I want to talk to you directly tonight about the choices that we face – none of them easy – and why we must take action now.
I know that we can succeed because we have succeeded before.
When the sickness took hold in this country in March, we pulled together in a spirit of national sacrifice and community. We followed the guidance to the letter. We stayed at home, protected the NHS, and saved thousands of lives.
And for months with those disciplines of social distancing we have kept that virus at bay.
But we have to acknowledge this this is a great and freedom-loving country; and while the vast majority have complied with the rules there have been too many breaches – too many opportunities for our invisible enemy to slip through undetected.
The virus has started to spread again in an exponential way. Infections are up, hospital admissions are climbing.
We can see what is happening in France and Spain, and we know, alas, that this virus is no less fatal than it was in the spring, and that the vast majority of our people are no less susceptible, and the iron laws of geometrical progression are shouting at us from the graphs that we risk many more deaths, many more families losing loved ones before their time;
and I know that faced with that risk the British people will want their government to continue to fight to protect them, you, and that is what we are doing, night and day. And yet the single greatest weapon we bring to this fight is the common sense of the people themselves – the joint resolve of this country to work together to suppress covid now.
So today I set out a package of tougher measures in England – early closing for pubs, bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not covid secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and new fines for those that fail to comply;
and once again asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors – a tougher package of national measures combined with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown. I know that this approach – robust but proportionate – already carries the support of all the main parties in parliament.
After discussion with colleagues in the Devolved Administrations, I believe this broad approach is shared across the whole UK. And to those who say we don’t need this stuff, and we should leave people to take their own risks, I say these risks are not our own.
The tragic reality of having covid is that your mild cough can be someone else’s death knell.
And as for the suggestion that we should simply lock up the elderly and the vulnerable – with all the suffering that would entail – I must tell you that this is just not realistic, because if you let the virus rip through the rest of the population it would inevitably find its way through to the elderly as well, and in much greater numbers.
That’s why we need to suppress the virus now, and as for that minority who may continue to flout the rules, we will enforce those rules with tougher penalties and fines of up to £10,000. We will put more police out on the streets and use the army to backfill if necessary.
And of course I am deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone’s freedom, but unless we take action the risk is that we will have to go for tougher measures later, when the deaths have already mounted and we have a huge caseload of infection such as we had in the spring.
If we let this virus get out of control now, it would mean that our NHS had no space – once again – to deal with cancer patients and millions of other non-covid medical needs.
And if we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.
It would mean renewed loneliness and confinement for the elderly and vulnerable, and ultimately it would threaten once again the education of our children. We must do all we can to avoid going down that road again.
But if people don’t follow the rules we have set out, then we must reserve the right to go further. We must take action now because a stitch in time saves nine; and this way we can keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward while we work together to suppress the virus.
That is our strategy, and if we can follow this package together, then I know we can succeed because in so many ways we are better prepared than before.
We have the PPE, we have the beds, we have the Nightingales, we have new medicines – pioneered in this country – that can help save lives.
And though our doctors and our medical advisers are rightly worried about the data now, and the risks over winter, they are unanimous that things will be far better by the spring, when we have not only the hope of a vaccine, but one day soon – and I must stress that we are not there yet - of mass testing so efficient that people will be able to be tested in minutes so they can do more of the things they love. That’s the hope; that’s the dream. It’s hard, but it’s attainable, and we are working as hard as we can to get there.
But until we do, we must rely on our willingness to look out for each other, to protect each other. Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour.
If we follow these simple rules together, we will get through this winter together. There are unquestionably difficult months to come.
And the fight against covid is by no means over. I have no doubt, however, that there are great days ahead.
But now is the time for us all to summon the discipline, and the resolve, and the spirit of togetherness that will carry us through.