Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa declared Wednesday a "state of calamity" in his country due to the "serious evolution" of the COVID-19 pandemic.more
Nearly 20,000 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the UK, while 137 more people have died after contracting the virus. The Government said that, as of 9am on Wednesday, there had been a further 19,724 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.more
A four-week "circuit breaker" lockdown will come into force in Northern Ireland on Friday in an attempt to stall the rise in coronavirus infections.more
Laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in another 6,526 people. Also, 116 patients died. This is the largest number of daily infections and deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, the Polish health ministry said today. more
Spain's medical services have announced that the country has seen a decline in the rate of coronavirus infections since Monday. In Portugal, the situation is unchanged.more
The next six months will show whether investing in renting is profitable, or whether the second apartment is just capital protection - the Polish daily "Puls Biznesu" reports.more
A budget "unprecedented in size and scale" to meet the challenges of both Covid-19 and a Brexit trade deal has been unveiled by Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe.more
Keir Starmer called for a two- to three-week national 'circuit breaker' lockdown across England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed, urging Boris Johnson to act in a dramatic escalation of his criticism of the government’s approach. more
Canary Islands authorities have introduced a ban on smoking in the streets. The new law, which has been in force in the Spanish archipelago since yesterday, is justified by the possibility of coronavirus contamination through nicotine smoke.more
A further 143 people in the UK have died with the virus - more than double the previous day's figure. Public Health England calls the rise "hugely concerning", with cases increasing in older age groups.more
The government's scientific advisers called for a short lockdown in England to halt the spread of Covid-19 last month, newly released documents show.more
UK unemployment rose to 4.5% in three months, the highest level in more than three years, and the number of layoffs was the highest since 2009, the National Statistics Office (ONS) reported.more
Heathrow airport, the busiest in Europe until the coronavirus pandemic, dropped out of the top 10 in August. The west London hub carried just 18 per cent of the passengers in that month compared with August 2019.more
After a short-term infection with the coronavirus, the outgoing US President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail. At a rally in Florida, he threw face masks into the crowd and said he was immune to infection.more
Londoners who flout coronavirus restrictions are less likely to be fined than people in most other regions of England and Wales, police data shows.more
Over the last 24 hours, 4,122 new SARS-CoV-2 infections were detected in Germany, and 13 more people died due to the coronavirus, informed the Berlin Institute of Robert Koch (RKI).more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson argued yesterday that the three-step system of epidemic restrictions announced a few hours earlier was a "balanced package". However, the Chief Medical Officer of England expressed concerns as to whether it was sufficient.more
A charity supplied by our Food For London Now campaign has warned of a sharp increase in food poverty in London as the second wave of the coronavirus takes hold.more
More than half of business representatives in Poland are concerned about this year's results of their companies, and 68 percent. believes that the effects of the pandemic are severe for businesses, according to the Kantar Global Business Compass study.more
