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This will be the longest transfer period in football, but at the same time - as experts assess - the most difficult for footballers. Many may be unemployed, and the market will set new, lower prices for players who can earn less, and clubs will have lower budgets and narrower staff.more

The EU Council has officially recommended to lift travel restrictions on 15 countries when external borders reopen from July 1.more

The worst could be still to come in the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, six months on from when the outbreak began.more

More than 90 per cent of Londoners are wearing a face covering when using public transport in line with coronavirus prevention rules, Transport for London (TfL) official said today.more

US states are pausing reopening plans amid a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalisations. Among the states stepping back is California, which reported a record surge in COVID-19 on Monday.more

Misinformation on the coronavirus spread by Russian and Chinese authorities and calculated on the devastation of democracy is gaining more social coverage in Europe than the prestigious press, according to a report from the Oxford Internet Institute published yesterdaymore

Approximately 6.5 million English people will go to pubs this weekend when they are reopened after almost a 3.5 month break. This would be 1.5 million more than on a normal July weekend, according to a study published yesterday.more

Scientists have warned the country is ‘on a knife-edge’ and needs to remain vigilant to prevent a second wave of coronavirus cases in the winter.more

The British are far fatter than any other nation in Europe bar the Maltese so there needs to be a debate about how to tackle soaring rates of obesity which cost the country dearly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.more

Patients who have been admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19 symptoms may experience post-traumatic stress disorder over time - warn British psychiatrists. Patients in the intensive care unit are at greatest risk.more

Australia's second most populous state said on Monday it is considering reimposing social distancing restrictions after the country reported its biggest one-day rise in new coronavirus infections in more than two months.more

Several London pubs have turned down the Government's call to reopen next week, citing safety concerns.more

More than half of the British believe that Boris Johnson's office is coping badly with the coronavirus epidemic, although the government's record has improved from the worst moment two weeks ago, according to a published YouGov survey.more

The Prime Minister is set to use the inspiration of the national coronavirus response for a plan dubbed "Project Speed", fast-tracking major building projects across the country to fuel the UK’s economic recovery.more

Due to the better situation in Silesia, the Polish-Czech border will be fully open from tomorrow without the current conditions - said the spokesman of the Polish government Piotr Müller. He informed that this information had been passed on to the head of the Polish government by the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babisz.more

A surge in coronavirus cases in Leicester could see the first local lockdown enforced within days.more

Crowds of tourists arrived yesterday to the Italian island of Capri. Concerned by large clusters of people, the mayor appealed for compliance with sanitary safety standards, above all for maintaining social distance in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic.more

Originally from Portugal, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that normalization of the world situation in connection with the coronavirus pandemic can be expected only in 2-3 years. He reserved, however, that this is the most optimistic scenario.more

72 percent respondents believe that the lifting of restrictions related to the coronavirus epidemic should be decided individually by each European Union country; 20 percent respondents say that decisions in this area should be coordinated at EU level - according to a CBOS survey.more

Blanket restrictions on non-essential overseas travel will be relaxed in the UK from 6 July, ministers have said. Holidaymakers are expected to be allowed to travel to certain European countries without having to spend 14 days in quarantine when they return.more

The British authorities today announced the death of 100 more people infected with coronavirus during the last 24 hours. 890 new cases of infection were also diagnosed. The official balance of fatalities for the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK is currently 43,514.more

Researchers in Barcelona say they have detected the presence of Covid-19 in a waste water sample collected in the Spanish city in March 2019, nine months before the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, was first reported.more

Australia's supermarket chains on Friday reintroduced purchase limits on toilet paper and other household items as a spike in coronavirus cases in the state of Victoria set off a fresh round of panic-buying over fears of a new stay-at-home order.more

A nationwide clap to thank the NHS will take place next Sunday, which is hoped to become an annual tradition.more

Two-thirds of Ukrainians believe that the coronavirus was created artificially, and nearly 40 percent think it has been deliberately spread throughout the world, according to a recent survey by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KMIS).more