Lockdown measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in the United Kingdom will be extended for at least three more weeks. Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the decision before Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab officially revealed the extension at the daily Downing Street briefing on Thursday.
A total of 9.1% of the United Kingdom defense workforce has reported as being absent from their usual place of work on Thursday due to reasons related to COVID-19. The figure, which equates to around 13,000 staff, includes personnel from both the regular and reserve force, according to the British Forces network.
The final leg of the humanitarian repatriation of passengers on board an Antarctic cruise, stranded in Uruguay and most of them testing positive for coronavirus, ended Wednesday afternoon when they boarded in Uruguay's Carrasco international airport a sanitary charter to Miami.
A 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be the oldest patient in Britain to beat the novel coronavirus, was discharged from hospital to applause from nurses and health workers.
Morrisons, Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket group, said it is giving National Health Service (NHS) workers a 10% discount to support them through the coronavirus crisis. It is the first of Britain's 'Big Four' to give a monetary discount to 1.5 million NHS workers, who have already been offered priority shopping hours by market leader Tesco, Sainsbury's, Walmart owned Asda and Morrisons.
The British government warned on Monday it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson left the hospital on Sunday and thanked the staff for saving his life from COVID-19, but his government was forced to defend its response to the coronavirus outbreak as the national death toll passed 10,000.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Sunday expressed his thanks to a Portuguese nurse who had tended to coronavirus-stricken British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in intensive care, according to a statement by the presidency.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was recovering in a hospital ward on Friday after ending three days in intensive care for COVID-19, as his government urged Britons to stay at home over Easter.
The Falkland Islands Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Rebecca Edwards, confirmed that a “more aggressive” coronavirus testing strategy will be employed once tests can be carried out in the Falklands.