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Cabinet Minister says allegations Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules are false Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says claims by the Guardian/Observer and Mirror that Dominic Cummings made a second trip to Durham during […]
Woman charged with the murder of a seven-year-old girl in Queen’s Park, Bolton in Greater Manchester. Elton Skana, who is 30 years old, has been charged with murdering seven-year-old Emily Jones in […]
Captaining the England cricket team is an honour only a small number of people have experienced. 80 people to be exact, spanning back to 1876. A role which has only been handed […]
Superdrug to be the first high street retailer to offer Coronavirus antibody test Tests will begin today and will detect positive antibodies 97.5 percent of the time. The test will be sold via […]
Man sentenced to death on Zoom in Singapore Singapore has sentenced a drug suspect to death on the popular video chat app Zoom because of the city-state’s coronavirus lockdown. The move has […]
President Donald Trump gives World Health Organisation a 30 day ultimatum In a four page letter addressed to the director general of The World Health Organization (WHO), President Trump has accused […]
Huge rise in unemployment benefit claims due to impact of coronavirus Official figures have shown a surge of 856,500 people submitting benefit claims last month as the coronavirus crisis took its toll […]
Ministers have told MPs that hate crimes against the south and the east Asian communities in the UK have increased by 21% during the coronavirus pandemic. Police estimates suggest a threefold increase […]
Russian building workers given green light to go back to work Even though most of the Russian economy is in lockdown and hospitals struggle to cope with coronavirus deaths, the country’s construction […]
A ticket officer at Victoria station, Belly Mujinga, has died just 14 days after being spat on by someone claiming to have the virus. Her family says the attack took place on […]
The Chinese city of Wuhan is working on plans to test all of its 11 million residents for Covid-19 according to state media. It comes after a cluster of six new cases […]
Government furlough scheme to continue until October Councellor Rishi Sunak announced in Parliament that furloughed employees will continue to be paid until October this year. He added that the level of support, […]
Black people are ‘four times more likely to die’ from COVID-19 than white people A new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found that some ethnic groups have a […]
Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge confirms supporters will not be allowed to attend football matches in the Netherlands until there is a COVID-19 vaccine. Sport across the country is currently postponed […]
Flooding in Africa kills more than 200 people Both Kenya and Uganda have been hit by deadly flooding. It is expected that more than 200 people have died as a result. Recent […]
A report by the Resolution Foundation think tank has estimated youth unemployment in the UK could rise by 640,000 this year. This would take the total to above one million. Latest official […]
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel confirms the German Bundesliga season can restart this month The Bundesliga (DFL) will be the first major European league to return to competition. The players returned to training […]
Russia has now become the country with the 6th most Coronavirus cases in the world. Image: Getty Images.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to reach 200,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of May. The government announced it had hit its target of 100,000 tests on Friday, […]
Mayor of Amazon rainforest region pleas for help as COVID-19 pandemic devastates their health system The mayor of the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest region has appealed for international aid because […]
Since the government has loosened rules on who can apply for a coronavirus test millions more in England have become eligible to apply for a test. This means that care home staff […]
Poland to re-open schools and shopping malls next week Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says the country’s hotels and shopping malls are going to open from Monday. Poland is easing restrictions imposed to […]
Baby son for Prime Minister Boris Johnson A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister has said that both the mother, Carrie Symonds, and baby are ‘doing very well.’ She said the PM and […]
Legendary Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan passes away at 53 in Mumbai The famous Bollywood Actor Irrfan Khan has died. He had been admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital with a colon […]
Care home death figures continue to rise Following the outbreak of coronavirus, deaths continue to reach record high numbers in UK Care Homes. The Office of National Statistics and The Care Quality […]
New Zealand has begun to gradually lift some of the restrictive measures imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus in the country over the last month. People are able to travel to […]
UK holds one-minute silence for key workers who have died from COVID-19. A minute’s silence has been held across the UK at 11 am, commemorating key workers who have died from COVID-19. […]
PMQs return to a socially distancing Parliament in COVID-19 crisis Britain Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will grill Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over the Government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis today. The […]
UK announces 449 more coronavirus deaths – the fewest for a fortnight The trend in deaths and hospitalisation is now downwards with a ‘flat-lining’ on government graphs. NHS England announced that the […]
NHS Protective clothing shortage crisis intensifies while UK government furiously defends its performance The UK government has been hitting back at a growing storm over poor handling of the coronavirus crisis while […]
Sunday Times investigation alleges Prime-Minister Boris Johnson was asleep on the job during five crucial weeks the UK could have planned for pandemic As Mr Johnson recovers from life-threatening COVID-19 at Chequers […]
Leading industry body fears as many as 7,500 people may have died contracting coronavirus in UK care homes. Care England, which represents independent care firms, said it had collected data which suggested […]
Lockdown Britain continues for at least another three weeks and daily hospital death rate still high at 861. The Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab said at Downing Street’s daily coronavirus news briefing, Mr […]
The Government is expected to announce an extension to the lockdown later today. The extension will last three weeks and is not likely to be relaxed before a vaccine is discovered. Labour […]
Health Secretary Matt Hancock announces ‘right to say goodbye’ to loved ones dying from coronavirus in care homes and hospitals. The UK’s cabinet minister in charge of health, Matt Hancock said ‘wherever […]
Government sends out stark warning after financial watchdog anticipates loss of two million jobs The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is predicting that the coronavirus lockdown could leave more than two million people […]
It’s the return of the working week in the UK after the Easter weekend, but the working is anything but normal. It’s day 23 of the emergency restrictions and another 717 have […]
UK deaths exceed 10,000, PM tells the country his battle with COVID-19 ‘could have gone either way’ but for two NHS angels, and the Archbishop of Canterbury gives his Easter sermon from […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital after treatment that included four days in Intensive Care. Before continuing his recuperation at Chequers, Mr Johnson recorded an Easter Sunday broadcast thanking […]
Death rate in this country is now horrendous with daily rate of dying more than in Spain and Italy. Projections suggest at least another 10,000 people will lose their lives with their […]
Number of deaths in UK has risen by 980, bringing the total to 8,958 The UK death toll has now exceeded the worst daily figures seen in Italy and Spain. And it […]
Number of deaths in UK rises by 881 – a total of 7,978 people have now died in hospital, does not include people dying in care homes First secretary of state Dominic […]
NHS staff have been banned from speaking publicly about their work against the coronavirus. It’s been reported that healthcare professionals have been threatened with disciplinary measures for discussing the coronavirus. There have […]
Rohingya camps in Bangladesh under lockdown over coronavirus Bangladesh has enforced a complete lockdown on Cox’s Bazaar, a southern district home to over a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. District head Kamal […]
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has suggested mass gatherings in the Islamic Republic may be banned through the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic. BREAKING: Iran’s supreme leader […]
Chinese city, Suifenhe, enters lockdown as the rest of the country relaxes restrictions. As the rest of China tentatively opens up its borders, Suifenhe, which borders with Russia, is entering lockdown. This […]
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has stated that UK GDP dropped by 0.1% in February, before the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. Official statisticians say that poor weather impacting the […]
A record death toll of 938 over 24 hours in Britain, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a third night in intensive care, his condition said to be ‘improving.’ The daily death […]
President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw US funds to the World Health Organisation Mr Trump alleges it ‘missed the call’ on the coronavirus pandemic. He said WHO was ‘very China-centric’ in […]
Britain wakes this morning knowing that Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s condition while fighting the COVID-19 virus is so serious he needs treatment in intensive care. The deterioration in his health means that […]
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