The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, have today announced plans for how the capital’s transition out of the Covid-19 crisis will be managed. more
One of the government's scientific advisers has said he would have liked ministers to have acted "a week or two weeks earlier" in the virus pandemic. Sir Ian Boyd, who sits on the Sage scientific advisory group, said "it would have made quite a big difference" to the death rate.more
By ordinance of the Minister of Health Kiril Ananiew, from midnight from Thursday to Friday, the coronavirus pandemic ban on entry to Bulgaria for EU citizens and Schengen residents as well as Andorra, Monaco and the Vatican was lifted.more
Oxfam International is to lay off almost 1,500 staff and close operations in 18 countries – including Afghanistan where it has worked for 50 years – after it emerged that the global aid organisation had been bleeding cash during the coronavirus crisis.more
The engineering firm Dyson told staff who were able to work from home to return to the office this week, in apparent contravention of government advice, then cancelled the plan after a mutiny among dismayed employees, the Guardian understands.more
Washing your hands at least six to 10 times a day makes catching infections such as coronavirus much less likely, a study by UK researchers suggests.more
Two men were sentenced to socially useful work, and in February they published false information about the coronavirus on a social network - the prosecutor's office of the Bekes committee in the south-east of Hungary said today.more
International travellers could face spot checks and £1,000 fines if they fail to self-isolate for 14 days after arriving in the UK under measures to guard against a second wave of coronavirus.
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Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has invited tourists to spend their summer holidays in the capital - which she described as "a safe city" - as Italy's battered tourism industry begins to reopen after the coronavirus emergency.more
Ryanair has called on the Irish and UK governments to drop what it describes as "unimplementable and ineffective" 14-day quarantine measures aimed at controlling the spread of coronavirus.more
A top U.S. scientist said on Wednesday that governments should not count on a successful vaccine against COVID-19 being developed anytime soon when deciding whether to ease restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic.more
Spain coach Luis Enrique said football without fans is "sadder than dancing with your sister" but accepts as a player he would have been desperate to get back out on the pitch regardless.more
A Syrian refugee risking his life in the fight against coronavirus as a hospital cleaner has won the right for his family to be granted indefinite leave to remain were he to die on the frontline.more
The University of Cambridge has said it will teach students online for the next full academic year, scrapping face-to-face classes in light of the coronavirus pandemic. more
European countries are preparing to open their borders in mid-June. For now, coordination does not cover the entire EU; some countries are announcing faster steps, and some, including Poland, have not yet decided.more
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally.more
Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin says he is having sleepless nights due to the Covid-19 pandemic with European soccer's governing body set to lose "millions and millions" of dollars after the season came to a halt.more
Some parts of Ireland’s economy could restart ahead of schedule if the novel coronavirus remains under control, Ireland’s Health Minister told Reuters on Wednesday, expressing cautious optimism of moving into phase two of a reopening plan on June 8.more
