Despite concerns over the Indian variant of coronavirus becoming dominant in some parts of the country, the prime minister has pushed ahead with a third stage of easing national lockdown measures. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News it was "appropriate...
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However, pressure is mounting on government to set out how and when it plans to lift the lockdown restrictions. Labour leader Keir Starmer has called on the government to reveal its strategy for exiting the coronavirus lockdown this week. In a letter to Raab, Starmer said that although mill...
March 2020: Sky News speaks to people about life under lockdown in Sheffield Would the public comply? When public health experts gave evidence to the COVID inquiry last year, they said they were wrong to assume the public would soon tire of a lockdown and suffer "behavi...
“We need to know how well the current restrictions are working before we can say anything sensible about what the next stage might be,” McLean, who is also Chief Scientific Adviser for the Ministry of Defence, said at a news conference when asked about the government’s lock...
When the lockdown restrictions were first put in place in Britain in March, the British government had to quickly sort out a complex package to keep the country's economy ticking, including the CJRS which opened for applications on March 20. ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a statement to parliament on Monday about potential new lockdown restrictions, as the government seeks to tackle a rapidly accelerating second wave of the coronavirus outbreak. The average daily number of COVID-19 cas...
LONDON (AP) — The British economy looks set to fall back into recession after official figures on Friday showed that it shrank by 2.6% month-on-month in November, when much of the country was in a second coronavirus lockdown. The Office for National Statistics said that as a result...
As airlines react to the new wave of lockdowns across Europe, they are again trimming flight schedules as the beginning of the winter season looks as gloomy as a Scandinavian November sky. Following the start of the UK's four-week lockdown with accompanying travel restrictions, KLM has decide...
Claire Bell, who lives in the city, says she didn't sleep last night ahead of her last workout in the USC gym before the restrictions close it down again. "I'm here now training, knowing that, yeah, it's all going to end tomorrow and we don't know how long for...