Susanna Reid wore a badge telling people to not shake her hand while presenting Good Morning Britain today as coronavirus panic sweeps through the UK.

Presenter Susanna, 44, held up her badge to co-star Andi Peters as he filmed behind the scenes at the studio.

Her yellow badge with complete with a drawing and read: "No Handshakes Please."

Introducing this morning's line-up, Andi excitedly announced: "We're at the studio! Kate Garraway! Ben Shephard! Susanna Reid!"

Susanna Reid was wearing an anti-handshakes badge on GMB
She showed off the badge on Good Morning Britain

Susanna went to pick up her small badge as she said: "No handshakes please!"

This came ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement that major events would not be banned in England .

But he said that will be kept under review, because “there is also the issue of the burden such events can place on public services” - the reason they’re being cancelled in Scotland.

Susanna presented GMB alongside Ben Shephard today
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that major events won't be banned in England

This is despite Ireland closing all schools and effectively going into lockdown and more than 240,000 people signing a petition calling for the UK to have a month-long Easter break .

Earlier on today, This Morning viewers were left outraged by Nigel Farage's appearance on the programme as he discussed the pandemic.

He was joined by Vanessa Feltz on the sofa to chat about Covid-19 where he hit out at the government for not looking after the UK and called for the country to be locked down.

Coronavirus panic is sweeping through the UK at the moment

Viewers lashed out at the production team for asking Nigel to comment and quizzed on why he was being hailed a 'coronavirus expert'.

One annoyed watcher typed on Twitter : "Nigel Farage on #ThisMorning talking about #coronavirus. Stop giving this uninformed individual a platform. He is not a health expert!"

Another added: "#ThisMorning since when has Nigel Farage been an expert on #cornoravirusuk - ridiculous that he is on your show!"

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*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV