Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will not celebrate her 94th birthday in any special way and has asked that there be no gun salutes to mark the occasion as the country battles COVID-19.
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Britain on Saturday recorded 917 more coronavirus deaths, bringing the overall death toll to nearly 10,000, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson was making “good progress” in his recovery from COVID-19, according to the government.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “improving” in intensive care, the British Government said on Wednesday, as it reported a new daily record of 938 deaths linked to novel coronavirus infections.
Queen Elizabeth will make an extremely rare address to the nation on Sunday as Britain grapples with the increasingly deadly coronavirus outbreak.
Nationwide Building Society, one of Britain’s biggest lenders, is abandoning plans to enter the business banking market, saying the coronavirus epidemic has made it commercially unviable.
A majority of British people agree that the government’s social-distancing measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus were taken “too late,” according to an opinion poll published on Thursday.
Britain’s deaths linked to novel coronavirus jumped again with a new daily record of 569 deaths on Thursday, taking the country’s total deaths to almost 3,000.
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to ramp up testing for coronavirus after his government faced criticism for being slower than some European peers to roll out mass checks for front-line health workers and the population.
The British Government is expected to announce another package to protect jobs and help businesses survive the severe economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Britain on Monday asked manufacturers, including Ford, Honda and Rolls Royce, to help make health equipment, including ventilators, to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday faced a backlash over his decision to keep schools open, with angry parents keeping their children at home.
Anthony Joshua’s world title fight against Kubrat Pulev will not take place behind closed doors, Eddie Hearn has insisted despite the coronavirus outbreak causing major disruption to sporting events.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “What we’re looking to do is to de-escalate the tensions with Iran and make sure in relation to Iraq that we don’t lose the hard-won gains that we secured against Daesh.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has warned British citizens against travel to Iraq or Iran amid heightened tension following the US airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
The 48-year-old, who is currently in jail in Britain, has to be rushed to hospital for treatment or he may die in detention, according to a letter sent to British Home Secretary Priti Patel and other media on Monday.
Between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed user data unfairly by allowing app developers to access the data without explicit and informed consent, the Information Commissioner’s Office ruled.
Hundreds of people blocked London’s normally busy Whitehall Road on Saturday to protest Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of the British parliament.
Almost one in five respondents to a survey of 1,052 people have begun to increase their stockpiles of food, drinks or medicines, financial services provider Premium Credit said.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who took power last week, has pledged to leave the trading bloc without an agreement in three months unless, the EU agrees to renegotiate the deal agreed by his predecessor Theresa May.
Boris Johnson promised on Thursday that Brexit would make Britain the greatest place on earth, echoing the patriotic rhetoric of US President’s Donald Trump in a debut speech as prime minister before parliament.