London lawyers expect boom in legal disputes on the back of Brexit and Covid-19 Litigation London litigators are readying themselves for a new wave of litigation lawsuits on the back of Brexit and Covid-19. In a survey carried out by the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA), 84 per cent of lawyers polled said they expect a surge in the number of Covid related contractual disputes. Another 70 per cent of [...]
Planned redundancies drop 86 per cent from pandemic peak Redundancies Businesses are planning far fewer redundancies than they were a year ago amid growing confidence about the UK's economic recovery.
Whitty: Covid-19 will ‘always be a problem’ but the situation will improve new daily record Covid-19 will “always be a problem”, the chief medical officer has warned, but that the pandemic situation is expected to improve every six months. The comments come as England records a new record of daily Covid-19 cases, with 88,367 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours. The latest record surpassed Wednesday’s previous record by [...]
Soho restaurants and cafés hit by Omicron restrictions December 14, 2021 Soho restaurants and cafés have been forced to rip up reservation lists as new Covid-19 restrictions scares punters from the West End.
Omishambles: Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab messes up Omicron hospitalisation stats live on air December 14, 2021 Raab claimed 250 people were in UK hospitals suffering from the Omicron variant, before officials clarified there were only 10 cases.
What is next for Hong Kong’s stock market? December 10, 2021 The Hang Seng Index is down close to 12.8% year to date. What lies ahead, as fears about Omicron dog markets? Hang Seng Index – what is weighing on the index? Year to date (YTD), the Hang Seng Index remained in the red with -12.8% total return, largely trailing behind its global peers such as Nikkei’s 4.1% [...]
‘Don’t freak out’: Vaccine bosses attempt to diffuse Omicron-induced jab fears November 30, 2021 Vaccine leaders have rushed to put out the fires of Moderna CEO’s jab cautions, urging the world: “Don’t freak out”. Pharmaceutical heavyweights have been gathering data on the latest Covid-19 variant Omicron, as concerns swell that a tailor-made vaccine may be necessary. AstraZeneca is already researching locations where the variant has been identified, namely in [...]
Blessing in disguise: Omicron variant may be ‘very positive’ news for the world if new Covid mutation kills off more lethal Delta coronavirus November 30, 2021 Hospitals and GPs across Southern Africa are increasingly reporting that the symptoms of the aggressive new Covid strain Omicron are “unusual but very mild,” according to various media in South Africa this weekend. Around 90 per cent of all new infections in the Johannesburg region are now caused by the Omicron strain but, so far, [...]
Omicron: How Europe is reacting November 29, 2021 With news of a new, potentially worse strain of Covid-19 – known as Omicron – countries in Europe have been quick to shutter restrictions in a bid to limit its spread. The UK has told incoming travellers that they must take a PCR test on the second day of arrival and must quarantine until they [...]
Millions dished out to inactive or new companies under covid loan scheme November 24, 2021 Lenders reportedly dished out a whopping £130m to questionable companies under a government Covid support scheme that issued loans up to £5m.