More than a quarter of Britons have admitted to breaking the government’s coronavirus lockdown rules, as Covidiots continue to needlessly roam the country’s streets and beauty spots.
Figures show 27 per cent of adults, who took part in a survey of more than 2,000 people, are refusing to comply with social distancing or are still making contact with people from other households.
Meanwhile, another survey has revealed how 14 per cent of people who replied to a YouGov poll ‘did not feel like changing their normal behaviour’ because of Covid-19.
It comes after the Mail Online revealed how some Covidiots were going to extreme lengths to visit their favourite walking spots while the UK is in lockdown.
Pictures, published yesterday, showed three people hopping the walls of Belle Vue Park in Newport, Wales, by using a step-ladder to enter the park, which is closed due to the coronavirus crisis.
Three people use a step-ladder to jump a wall to a park in Newport, Wales. The park has been closed due to the coronavirus outbreak
Britons are allowed to leave their homes to buy essential items, but dozens of shoppers have also been seen leaving shops with household items. This woman was seen leaving The Range in Bristol with a lampshade
Footage shows a group of youths flouting the coronavirus lockdown rules as they pull up in two cars near a hospital, blaring loud music on a road in Hillingdon Heath, west London
Other Covidiots include teenagers seen gathering around disposable barbecues and drivers, in Hillingdon Heath, west London, who stopped their cars to blare loud music on a road filled with elderly residents.
Dozens of people have also been seen leaving shops such as The Range with seemingly unessential items, including house plants and a lampshade.
Figures from OnePoll show a third of those still leaving their home were doing so because they are essential workers, a reason permitted by the government.
But a worrying 54 per cent said there were ‘other reasons’.
New figures from YouGov show some Britons are following the government’s advice.
The figures, from a poll of more than 2,000 people, show 53 per cent of people chose not to leave their home on Monday, compared to 43 per cent from five days earlier.
However their was a small increase in the number of people who wanted to leave their home for less than two hours the following day, rising from 43 per cent 47 per cent.
Attitudes towards the virus have also largely remained the same, with around 40 per cent of people believing they had a ’50-50 chance’ contracting the virus and around 50 per cent feeling ‘fairly confident’ they would recover if they caught it.
But worrying attitudes towards Covid-19 still exist, according to the poll.
Five per cent of people believed it was ‘very unlikely’ they would get the virus, while six per cent of people in a smaller poll, of around 60 people, said they believed it was ‘better to spread the virus and get it over with’.
Earlier this month the government announced strict rules banning all non-essential travel and ordering people to isolate themselves with people within their own households.
Under the rules, people are allowed out of their homes to buy essential supplies, for medical reasons, to take exercise once a day for no more than an hour, or to travel to and from key jobs, where working at home is not possible.
Officers have since been patrolling the country looking to break up picnics and parties with threats of arrest or fines of up to £60 for those are breaching social distancing guidelines.
They now have the powers to instruct people to go home, leave or disperse from an area, and ensure parents are taking necessary steps to stop their children breaking these rules.
Police can also issue a three-strike fine policy which starts at £60 for a first offence, rises to £120 for the second and reaches £1,000.
But people are continuing to break the rules.
Terrifying footage captured a motorcycle gang tearing across a beauty spot during the lockdown, damaging the landscape and putting people taking daily exercise at risk.
Officers have since been patrolling the country with threats of arrest or fines of up to £60 for those are breaching social distancing guidelines. Here a motorcycle gang tear across a beauty spot in Swansea, Wales.
The group were seen damaging the landscape and putting people taking daily exercise at risk.
At least a dozen of the off-road vehicles, none which appeared to have licence plates, made their way to Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower in Swansea, Wales.
Some local residents were out taking a daily walk, and the quad bikers’ presence left some fearing for their safety.
More than 29,000 people in the UK are know to have been infected with Covid-19 since the outbreak earlier this year.
Yesterday, the government announced a further 563 deaths from the virus, bringing the number of people who have died in the UK from the virus to 2,352.