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Coronavirus in Europe
London News
UK pub uses electric fence to enforce social distancing
At the beginning of July, UK pubs reopened at the end of lockdown allowing costumer to enjoy their pints after months of abstinence.
Pub operators are though struggling to enforce social distancin...
Brussels News
Norway: anti covid measures affect funeral services because of declining mortality
The covid-19 pandemic crisis in Norway is also affecting funeral services in an unprecedented way.
The declining mortality rate and the inability to perform funeral ceremonies have forced half a doz...
London News
UK study shows that covid-19 antibodies decrease over a three-month period
A new study conducted on people that were first infected, and then cured from covid-19, increases the prospect that immunity to the virus may be shorter than what is believed.
Three months after inf...
Barcelona News
Covid-19, in Catalonia 8 municipalities return to a Phase 1 lockdown
Update 13 July at 13.27
A court decided not to ratify the decision taken yesterday by the Catalan Government to impose a lockdown in eight municipalities, including Lleida. For the judge of the Court...
London News
Coronavirus: England to scrap quarantine for more than 50 countries
France, Germany, Italy and Spain already confirmed on list of 'reduced risk' destinations.
Travellers arriving into England from more than 50 countries will be exempt from the mandatory coronavirus q...
Jersey News
Jersey opens up to safe travel after months of isolation from the rest of the world
Air and sea connections with Jersey, the United Kingdom and France will resume on Friday 3 July after more than three months of almost total travel lockdown.
As of 3 July airlines and ferries will...
Copenhagen News
Covid-19 has been, and still is, an enemy of love.Married couples have been separated by the anti-contagion regulations all over the world, but those most severely hit are between 16 and 25 years old,...
London News
Boris Johnson reveals plans for post lockdown strategy
The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced his outline plans for England's exit from lockdown in a broadcast on Sunday evening, saying that details are to follow on Monday.
His plans apply...
Jersey News
Jersey starts to ease the covid-19 lockdown
The Jersey government has announced its safe exit strategy, a four-point plan to ease the lockdown put in place on 30 March to stop the spread of covid-19.
All stages may be reversed on any indicatio...
Brussels News
As most countries in the world band together to #StayHome and stop the spread of covid-19, political divisions in the U.S. prevent it from participating as a unified front.
Where the majority of Ame...
Vienna News
Austria reopens after lockdown
Austria started closing its borders as early as March 10th due to the burgeoning Covid-19 crisis.
It began with the closure of their land borders with Italy and the restricted entry of Italians unl...
Berlin News
Coronavirus in Europe: Germany’s Response to Covid-19
“We must understand that we have to live with the virus as long as there are no medicines and no vaccines,”Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
In late February, as the Covid-19 crisis was beginning to tak...
London News
UPDATE: UK prime minister leaves hospital
Boris Johnson, the prime minister, was released from hospital Sunday morning, a week after he was admitted to St Thomas' hospital in London with serious complications from Covid-19.
He spent three d...
Jersey News
Jersey to build an emergency Covid-19 hospital
Jersey has given the go-ahead for the construction of an emergency hospital with capacity for 180 Covid-19 patients.
It will contain six wards for 30 patients each, administrative facilities for rec...
Brussels News
Coronavirus in Europe: Sweden opts for herd immunity
The Scandinavian country has adopted a starkly different approach to the global COVID-19 health crisis
Amidst the eerie calm of European streets due to nationwide quarantine measures, Sweden’s busine...
London News
UPDATE: Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care
06-04-2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to intensive care with coronavirus symptoms.
A spokesperson for Downing Street said: “Over the course of this afternoon, the condition o...
London News
Coronavirus: The Wimbledon tennis tournament gets cancelled
The global emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic adds another significant victim in the sports world: the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The 2020 edition of the prestigious event has been cancell...
London News
British Airways closes operations at Gatwick airport indefinitely
British Airways has closed its London Gatwick services and is moving them all to Heathrow. There the BA operates out of Terminal 5 for most of its flights, with a few out of Terminal 3.
BA is the Br...
Jersey News
Jersey cracks down to stop the spread of coronavirus
The government of Jersey introduced new, tougher measures to prevent movement around the island in its fight against the spread of Covid-19. Previously only those aged 65 and over, with underlying hea...
London News
EasyJet grounds all its planes as UK airline industry grinds to a halt
EasyJet has grounded its fleet because of lack of demand for air travel during the coronavirus Covid-19 epidemic.It has not been able to give a definite date for a return of its services, saying in it...
