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The domestic airlines have announced resuming mountain view flights from next week after eight months of closure, as economic activities have started to pick-up again and return to normal, including all tourism-related activities.more

Ireland’s second lockdown ends today as non-essential retail outlets, churches, gyms, hairdressers and other businesses open their doors for the first time in six weeks.more

Debenhams stores are set to close after the failure of last-ditch efforts to rescue the ailing store chainmore

The world economy will make a spectacular comeback aided by vaccine rollouts and government support, the OECD says. But by then, the pandemic will have dealt some painful, enduring blows in many countries.more

Drinkers in tier two areas of England could order a Scotch egg with their pint to keep in line with post-lockdown rules, a cabinet minister has said.more

More than one-third of kids who have COVID-19 are asymptomatic, according to a University of Alberta study that suggests youngsters diagnosed with the disease may represent just a fraction of those infected.more

England and Wales' contact-tracing app is to add a Self-Isolation Payment feature as soon as next week.more

Ottawa is extending a slew of travel restrictions and rules meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic into the new year as case counts continue their steady rise across the country.more

Shops in England will be allowed to stay open for 24 hours a day in the run-up to Christmas and in January, the housing secretary has said.more

The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged nations on Monday to carefully consider the coming ski season’s risks, as Switzerland runs lifts and Austria mulls following suit while Germany, Italy and France shutter mountain operations to slow the pandemic.more

Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins owner Arcadia has gone into administration, putting 13,000 jobs at risk. The High Street giant has hired administrators from Deloitte after the pandemic "severely impacted" sales across the group.more

The United Kingdom reported 12,330 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, up from 12,155 a day earlier and taking the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 1,629,657 cases, government data showed.more

For three days until yesterday morning, 8,782 new laboratory-confirmed coronavirus carriers were registered in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, bringing their total number to 327,072 since the start of the pandemic on February 24, the Swiss Federal Office of Health (BAG) reported.more

Welsh pubs, restaurants and cafes will be banned from serving alcohol from Friday and will be unable to open to customers beyond 18:00 GMT. First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the new rules to tackle a rise in coronavirus cases. Business groups said the move would devastate Wales' hospitality industry, with closures "guaranteed".more

Singing Christmas carols, including caroling around the house, nativity play in schools and St. Santa Claus will be allowed - there are guidelines announced by the British government for Christmas, although there will be restrictions in areas with the highest level of restrictions.more

Shoppers should not spend more than 15 minutes inside a store to lower the risk of catching coronavirus during the Christmas rush, a Government scientist has warned. more

This year, Poles bought 20.7 million packages of prescription antidepressants. This is over a million more than the year before - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more

The French Supreme Health Authority (HAS) issued today recommendations on vaccination against Covid-19. In the first place, residents of nursing homes and the elderly with comorbidities are to be vaccinated, as well as health care workers.more

Pizza Hut Delivery is to hire 2,500 staff in a recruitment spree after its plans for rapid expansion were boosted by surging demand for takeaways during the pandemic.more

If the vaccines against the coronavirus work, we will emerge from the pandemic by the end of the summer, according to Professor Franco Locatelli, President of the Italian Healthcare Council.more

The Shard has been lit up in a dazzling multicoloured display in honour of NHS and key workers. Medical workers from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust were invited to carry out the annual Christmas switch-on, which saw all 20 storeys of the building lit up with more than 575 LED lights on Thursday night. more

Until December 27, 2020, it is mandatory to cover the mouth and nose in workplaces if there is more than one person in the room - according to the regulation of Polish government. The employer is still required to provide disposable gloves or hand sanitizers.more

Another 12,155 COVID-19 cases and 215 deaths of people who have tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the UK in the past 24 hours.more

101-year-old resident of Lombardy in the north of Italy has already defeated the coronavirus twice and as a child - the Spanish flu; this is one of the few such cases in the world - emphasized the head of the regional government Attilio Fontana, greeting the cured woman.more

Boris Johnson has proposed an expiry date for England’s tiered coronavirus restrictions in a bid to reassure furious Tory MPs that the measures will not drag on for months.more