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Latest news and updates on the impact of a new strain of coronavirus on the United Kingdom. The virus causes the disease Covid-19 and the World Health Organisation has declared the spread of the infection a pandemic.
After three years avoiding Covid-19 in Hong Kong and then not catching it in over a year back in the UK, Cliff Buddle began to believe he was immune. Now, reality has dawned.
Britain’s prime minister may have been a ‘fervent Sinophile’, but he bows out with ties between the two countries at a low.
Close to 400 pubs in England and Wales closed in 2022, continuing a trend that has seen about 15,000 establishment shut their doors across the UK over the last two decades.
Researchers in the UK suggested less affluent people may have felt more urgency to quit, while those who were wealthier and in managerial roles may have continued due to pandemic stress.
The inquiry is examining the UK’s pandemic response and has heard testimony about often chaotic scenes in the government of then-PM Boris Johnson, marked by incompetence, back-stabbing and misogyny.
The former British PM said portrayals of partying in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic were ‘absolutely absurd’ as he faced a second day of questioning at a public inquiry.
The former PM resigned in disgrace after a series of scandals including reports that he had been present at alcohol-fuelled gatherings in Downing Street when most people in the UK were forced to stay at home.
Despite the British leader’s vow to reduce arrivals, official figures showed net migration last year hit new levels.
Finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced a huge package of 110 measures aimed at reinvigorating the ailing economy and boosting business investment.
Patrick Vallance, Boris Johnson’s chief scientific adviser said that the former UK prime minister struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic.
Covid-19 restrictions speeded up brain deterioration in people over 50, a long-term study of over 3,000 subjects has found, raising ‘important questions’ about their increased risk of dementia.
The protester shouted “true democracy is citizen-led” and “politics needs an update” before scattering glitter over Keir Starmer’s head.
Sunak cancelled a rail link to Manchester ending weeks of uncertainty and provoking anger in his own Conservative Party.
Oliver Dowden raised the issue at Prime Minister’s Questions on Monday, amid pressure from MPs concerned at China’s activity in the field.
Conservative MP Dorries announced she would resign more than two months ago in the wake of former PM Johnson’s resignation. She accuses PM Rishi Sunak of helping to ‘whip up a public frenzy’ against her.
The BA.2.86 mutation was identified in someone with no recent travel history, which means there could already be “significant community transmission” the British Health Security Agency said.
The reopened investigation concerns a Christmas party held in December 2020 in the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party which was organised by staff working on a mayoral election campaign.
British lawmakers approved a damning report that found the ex-prime minister had lied about gatherings that broke UK pandemic rules.
He is the first politician to give evidence at an inquiry that seeks to lay bare mistakes made and lessons to be learned from the UK’s handling of Covid.
The privileges committee – the main disciplinary body for lawmakers – said he should now be stripped of having automatic access to parliament.
The first phase of the inquiry is due to focus on the UK’s resilience and preparedness in the face of the global health emergency.
A Hong Kong-based real estate fund is seeking fresh capital from outside investors to acquire UK pub, hotel and student-housing properties as landlords suffer from ever-increasing financing costs.
The ex-PM accused opponents of trying to drive him out after he received results of a probe over misleading statements he made on Covid rule breaches.
The probe, set up by Johnson himself when he was still PM, is set to investigate the British government’s pandemic preparedness and response.
More than 3,000 current and former students are suing University College London for breach of contract, in a case which could be followed by similar litigation against other British universities.
Long Covid has left Hong Kong public health advocate Dr Judith Mackay exhausted and breathless; she has tried vitamin D, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and a steroid inhaler but nothing worked.
The findings are the latest to identify health as one of the factors dragging down the UK economy, with long-term illness since the pandemic cited as one of the main reasons people are dropping out of the workforce.
The four-day walkout by tens of thousands of doctors at the state-funded healthcare system could postpone up to 350,000 appointments.
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson mounted a robust defence at a hearing that could damage or even end his tumultuous political career.
The former leader, however, rejected the accusation he had deliberately lied to the House.