Britain's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, appears on BBC TV's The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain, March 15, 2020. Jeff Overs/BBC/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will have the power to force people to quarantine if necessary as part of its strategy to fight coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC television on Sunday.

“We are going to take the powers to make sure that we can quarantine people if they are a risk to public health,” he said. “I doubt we will need to use it very much because people are being very responsible and people need to be responsible.”