Public 'health' and Public 'order' have always been linked though. https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1247065436602146817

Via the motif of the body politic that goes back as far as the Greeks, the 'health' of the state has been tied to the suppression of disease and disorder: a function explicitly assigned to police as long as they have existed

Both public health and public order have been tied to racialised, classed and gendered notions of what constitutes cleanliness, good health and good order

When police talk about 'cleaning up the streets' as their job they aren't talking about crime but people who have been historically constructed as 'dangers' to the 'health' of the state

Increased police powers, as we are seeing, for eg Peckham Rye and Brockwell Park will be most heavily borne out on the most marginalised because this is inscribed into their function via the concepts of health and order

See the @netpol blog for updates on how increased police powers are being used in discriminatory and arbitrary ways : https://policing-the-corona-state.blog/