Coronavirus In Uk

Premier League: Clubs refuse to release players for international matches held in UK's red-list countries

Amid frustration that players who travelled to red-list countries would have to follow UK coronavirus quarantine regulations ruling them out of several of their club's matches, the league has revealed a blanket ban for the September fixtures.

As demand for public transit reduces drastically due to pandemic, London's Tube battles cash crisis

The pandemic has left the world’s oldest subway system facing an uncertain future. The Tube, which relies heavily on ticket revenues, faces a cash crisis.

In London, West End theatres prepare to welcome audiences back a year after lockdown

The stages that collectively employ 3,00,000 people were ordered shut a week before the country went into full lockdown in March 2020. They have remained closed for most of the last 13 months.

A year since first lockdown, UK reflects on 'grief and loss' amid tribute to frontline workers

A year to the day since Boris Johnson first put the country under lockdown to slow the fast-spreading coronavirus, Britain paused to remember those who have died after contracting COVID-19 and reflect on a 12-month period that has turned life upside down.

England plans to lift lockdown by 21 June: Schools, outdoor picnics to resume by 8 March, shops in April

The final stage of the plan, in which all legal limits on social contact are removed and nightclubs can reopen after being shuttered for 15 months, is penciled in for 21 June

Harry Potter actor Jessie Cave's newborn hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus

Jessie Cave in an Instagram post revealed she's currently isolated with her two-month-old son at the hospital

New coronavirus strain in UK: SARS-CoV-2 variant appears more contagious, but is unlikely to render vaccines ineffective

The new variant came to the attention of researchers in December, when it began to turn up more frequently in samples from parts of southern England

Maharashtra imposes night curfew in all municipalities from tomorrow; 14-day institutional quarantine for arrivals from Europe

The decision was taken at a meeting held by Chief Minister Uddhav Thakeray in light of the situation in UK . A coronavirus variant said to be 70% more transmissible is spreading at a fast pace in parts of England

India suspends all flights from UK from 23-31 Dec amid fears of more infectious coronavirus variant found in Britain

Earlier, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said the government is fully alert and there is no need to panic. The Union health ministry has called an urgent meeting of its Joint Monitoring Group on Monday to discuss the new strain, which has led to a surge in the infection rate in the UK.

Health ministry calls urgent meeting today to discuss potent new strain of coronavirus in UK

A number of European countries have banned flights from the UK as the British government warned that the potent new strain of the virus was "out of control" and imposed a stringent new stay-at-home lockdown from Sunday.