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The Dutch government’s travel advice for the Barcelona metropolitan area has been changed to code orange, meaning all but essential travel to the area should be avoided, the foreign affairs ministry has announced.more

Tougher coronavirus restrictions are being introduced in Oldham to try and prevent a local lockdown after the borough saw a spike of more than 100 cases in a week. more

In Sweden, the coronavirus epidemic is retreating, we are going in the opposite direction from the rest of the world, where the number of infections is growing worryingly, the country's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell announced on Tuesday.more

Sales at pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK plunged by £30bn during lockdown, according to the hospitality sector.more

High Street pasty seller Greggs has decided not to payout last year's dividend as the company prepares to preserve cash in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. more

Europe appears to be at the beginning of a second coronavirus wave, UK prime minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday, after a number of countries on the continent started to reimpose lockdown restrictions following an uptick in cases.more

Belgium's prime minister on Monday put the brakes on the country's coronavirus exit plan, unveiling a set of drastic social distancing measures aimed at avoiding a new general lockdown amid a surge of COVID-19 infections.more

Quarantine for people arriving from Spain or other countries with high coronavirus levels could reportedly be cut to ten days under plans being looked at by ministers. more

Spain's hard-hit hotels had offered to pay for foreign tourists to take coronavirus tests, in an effort to lure back visitors worried by a fresh wave of cases and put off by Britain's sudden imposition of a two-week quarantine.more

Men aged 18 to 34 from ethnic minority groups were twice as likely to be fined for breaching lockdown coronavirus laws as young white men, figures show.more

Front-line health workers and senior clerics in Brazil are adding their voices to the chorus of alarm about President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the coronavirus pandemic.more

Further doubt has been cast on Britons’ hopes of taking overseas holidays this summer after the Foreign Office advised against all but essential trips to the popular Balearic and Canary Islands, and Downing Street warned that “no travel is risk-free” during the coronavirus pandemic.more

A cat has become the first animal in the UK to test positive for Covid-19, according to the UK's Chief Veterinary Officer. But there's good news -- the animal and its owners have now made a full recovery.more

Germany will make coronavirus tests mandatory for travellers returning from risk areas, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Monday, as fears rise that summer travel could spark a new surge in infections. more

The UK has updated its advice against all non-essential travel to Spain to include the Balearic and Canary Islands following a rise in coronavirus cases.more

The UK economy could take until 2024 to return to the size it was before the coronavirus lockdown, according to analysis from the EY Item Club.more

Flanders-based pharmaceutical company Janssen Pharmaceutica has begun human testing of a vaccine prototype designed to protect against the coronavirus. The company hopes that the vaccine will be ready in the first half of next year.more

Ministers are considering requiring the public to wear gloves to combat coronavirus, as well as face coverings. During a debate in the House of Lords on coronavirus regulations health minister Lord Bethell said gloves are "an area we’re looking at" as the Government considers how best to protect the public.more

Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu says no club has been affected more than his side since the start of the coronavirus crisis.more

The coronavirus pandemic is undoubtedly the worst health crisis the World Health Organization (WHO) has faced, its boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today. According to Reuters calculations, more than 16 million people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.more

Ryanair has said it will continue its flights in and out of Spain as normal, despite the UK government's decision to impose a 14-day quarantine on travellers arriving from the country. more

There were fewer customers on the first day it became mandatory to wear face masks in public places such as shops, supermarkets and takeaways.more

The debts of Poles due to unpaid bills and loan installments increased by over PLN 1.2 billion, to PLN 81 billion, according to the InfoDług study. This amount is twice as high as a year ago.more

A raft of measures have been revealed as part of the government’s new obesity strategy to get the nation fit and healthy, protect themselves against COVID-19 and protect the NHS.more

A left-wing think tank has called for the Government to introduce four-day weeks in industries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. more