France shuts its borders to non-EU countries including Britain for all but essential travel

France shuts its borders to non-EU countries including Britain for all but essential travel – while ruling out a third national lockdown By Chris Jewers For Mailonline and Afp Published: 21:15 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 21:16 GMT, 29 January 2021 France will shut its borders to all non-EU countries, including Britain, for all … Read more

Footballers due to play March internationals in countries on PM’s quarantine list will NOT be exempt

EXCLUSIVE: Footballers due to play March internationals in countries on Boris Johnson’s hotel quarantine list will NOT be exempt from the new rules… meaning they must pull-out of the games or miss club matches when they fly back 56 players in the Premier League are from Portugal or South American countries Department for Transport guidance … Read more

How some European countries are keeping schools open

While parents in Britain face the prospect of schools staying shut until Easter, some European countries have managed to keep their classrooms open during the hard winter of Covid-19 with compulsory masks and social distancing rules.  In France, children are still attending in person at every level from kindergartens to high schools – with masks … Read more

Boris Johnson will ‘force travellers from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine in hotels’

Boris Johnson will ‘force travellers from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine in hotels for ten days’ in decision to be taken on Monday PM favours targeted approach rather than making all air passengers quarantine Brazil and South Africa travellers will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels Mr Johnson expected to chair a Covid … Read more

Countries around the world consider tougher restrictions on UK after Covid strain announcement

Britain faces becoming a global pariah as countries around the world consider tougher travel restrictions in a bid to keep out Britain’s ‘more deadly’ Covid strain. EU leaders are said to be drawing up a blue-print which could see travel banned from the UK to all of the union’s member states. It come as the … Read more

146 Americans have UK ‘super-covid’ as cases DOUBLE in Florida and variant strikes 60 countries

Florida has become America’s new ‘super-COVID’ hotspot, leading the country in known cases. At least 46 cases of the highly contagious variant first identified in the UK have been found in the Sunshine State, more than double the initial figure of 22. The new strain, B 1.1.7., is feared to be up to 70 percent … Read more

Super-infectious Kent Covid strain has spread to at least 60 countries

The super-infectious mutant strain of coronavirus that was first detected in Kent has spread to at least 60 other countries, the World Health Organization said today. Cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, sometimes known as VOC 202012/01, have been reported in most of continental Europe, as well as in nations further afield including the US, Australia, India, … Read more

The ten countries that STILL have not had a single case of Covid-19

Covid-19 has swept across the globe since its initial outbreak in China in late 2019, yet there are still a handful of nations that have not recorded a single case of the virus.  There have been over 95 million cases of the highly infectious virus recorded worldwide and it has been detected on every continent … Read more

Ministers are set to ban flights from Brazil and surrounding countries

No10 looks set to finally ban flights from Brazil today, days after scientists sounded the alarm about a new Covid super-strain. Boris Johnson and ministers on the Covid-O committee will today consider suspending all travel from the whole of South America to tackle the variant.  This could include other countries such as Argentina, Uruguay and … Read more

Sexual abuse by aid workers in poor countries is STILL going on three years after Oxfam Haiti

Sexual abuse by aid workers in poorer countries is STILL going on three years after the Oxfam Haiti scandal, MPs are told Vast majority of those surveyed believe abuse of aid recipients is continuing Exploiters may still be rehired in the aid sector as investigations are lacking The MPs’ report warned perpetrators are still escaping … Read more