UK holidaymakers scrambling for flights home face exorbitant prices to beat quarantine deadline June 4, 2021 British tourists and holidaymakers scrambling for flights home from Portugal before new quarantine requirements come into force are being charged hundreds of pounds. People arriving in the UK from Portugal after 4am on Tuesday will need to self-isolate at home for 10 days after the Government moved it from the green list to the amber [...]
Number of people in England with Covid-19 jumps by 75 per cent in a week June 4, 2021 The number of people infected with Covid-19 in England has gone up by around 75 per cent last week, new figures suggest. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that 85,600 people in England had the virus in the week to 29 May, equating to around one in 640 people in private households. This is [...]
ONS: ‘Long Covid’ has hit around 1m Brits, with effects lasting a year June 4, 2021 “Long Covid” has struck around 1m people in private households in the UK, in the four weeks to 2 May, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Of the 1m long covid sufferers, an estimated 869,000 said they first had Covid-19 or thought they had the virus at least 12 weeks [...]
End of ‘work from home if you can’ Government advice may be delayed beyond 21 June June 4, 2021 End of 'work from home if you can' Government advice may be delayed
‘Nepal mutation’ of the so-called Indian Covid-19 variant detected, Grant Shapps warns June 3, 2021 Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said this evening “a sort of Nepal mutation of the so-called Indian variant” has been detected. “It has been detected and we just don’t know the potential for that to be vaccine-defeating mutation and simply don’t want to take the risk as we come up to June 21 and the review [...]
Panic across Africa as third wave looms and Covid vaccine shipments grind to a halt June 3, 2021 Coronavirus vaccine shipments have ground to “a near halt” in Africa while virus cases have spiked 20 per cent over the last two weeks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned today. South Africa alone saw a more than 60 per cent rise in new cases last week as the country with the highest coronavirus caseload [...]
More than half of UK adults have now received two vaccine doses June 3, 2021 More than half of all adults in the UK have now received two doses of the Covid vaccine as the rollout continues with pace. The milestone follows yesterday’s news that more than three-quarters of adults have had their first jab. “Over half of UK adults have now been fully vaccinated and have maximum protection against [...]
Portugal under threat as ministers set to update travel ‘green list’ June 3, 2021 Ministers will today meet to sign off on changes to the UK’s travel “green list”, with reports that popular holiday destination Portugal could be switched to “amber” after a surge in cases. Speaking about the update yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the government would not hesitate to suspend quarantine-free travel if necessary. “You’ve [...]
Travel abroad will be safer this summer and the UK’s green list update should reflect this June 2, 2021 Travel abroad will be safer this summer and the UK's green list update should reflect this
Government in negotiations for ‘Covid variant vaccine’ June 2, 2021 The Government has entered negotiations to secure a “variant vaccine” adapted to tackle the variant first identified in South Africa, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said this afternoon. In a speech delivered at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, Hancock said: “There is yet more to do, the work isn’t over yet – we’re still procuring all [...]