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Gyms and household mixing changes brought forward In Wales

April 09, 2021 - 12:00 AM Gyms will be allowed to reopen and people will be able to form extended households a week earlier than planned in Wales, the first minister has said. Gyms and leisure centres will be able to open from 3 May - instead of 10 May - while two households can bubble up to meet indoors from the same date. Wedding receptions outdoors for up to 30 people will be allowed from 26 April, also moving forward a week. A drop in Covid cases has prompted the changes, the Welsh government said. The dates for reopening the hospitality industry have not changed - pubs, cafe...

UK Schools Return: 'Inevitable' cases will rise as pupils return - but minister rules out any more school closures in staggered return to schools started today.

March 08, 2021 - 08:21 PM Boris Johnson warned coronavirus cases could rise again after schools reopened on Monday (8th March). The prime minister also appeared to reject suggestions that his “roadmap” to lifting lockdown in England could be accelerated as Covid cases, deaths and hospitalisations all continue to...

UK Covid alert level drops as NHS threat 'recedes'

February 25, 2021 - 08:38 PM The UK has lowered its Covid-19 alert status from the highest possible level for the first time since early January, reflecting a sustained reduction in the number of people being admitted to hospital with the disease. The department of health said on Thursday that “following advice from the ...

BREAKING: PM Boris Johnson announces 'roadmap to ease lockdown' with schools to reopen on 8 March.

February 22, 2021 - 07:36 PM Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the “end is in sight” as he unveiled his plan for lifting lockdown restrictions in England to MPs on Monday. Presenting his “cautious” approach to reuniting families and seeing children return to school in the House of Commons,...

UK Quarantine Hotel guest goes on hunger strike & makes a run for freedom

February 18, 2021 - 07:59 PM A British father-of-one tried to break out of a quarantine hotel near London Heathrow Airport this morning and has gone on hunger strike after claiming he is being held there 'under duress', Wanted News can reveal. Anthony Pium, 30, from Leyton, East London, was involved in an angry confrontation w...

COVID Rapid tests could help reopen nightclubs, says PM Boris Johnson.

February 16, 2021 - 11:56 AM Quick coronavirus testing could enable nightclubs and theatres to reopen, Boris Johnson has suggested. The PM said "rapid" lateral flow tests could be used by "those parts of the economy we couldn't get open last year"."That, in combination with vaccination, will probably be the route forward," he ...

'We want this lockdown to be our last' says PM Boris Johnson

February 15, 2021 - 09:37 PM Boris Johnson wants England’s current lockdown “to be the last” but warned he could offer no guarantees on a reopening of society that will have to be “cautious.” The U.K. prime minister, who is expected to set out a “roadmap” for lifting coronavirus ...

The UK's longest Coronavirus patient will need a ventilator for the rest of his life

February 11, 2021 - 10:16 AM One of the UK's longest-suffering coronavirus patients may need a ventilator to help him breathe for the rest of his life, his wife has said.Jason Kelk has spent more than 10 months in an intensive care unit at St James' Hospital in Leeds after contracting COVID-19 in March last year.The 4...

England might not return to regional restrictions as lockdown is eased, Boris Johnson suggests

February 02, 2021 - 01:29 AM England may not return to regional coronavirus restrictions when the current lockdown is eased, the prime minister has suggested. "It may be that a national approach, going down the tiers in a national way, might be better this time round, given that the disease is behaving much more nationally," B...

The UK must 'come down hard' on new South African COVID variant says Matt Hancock

February 02, 2021 - 01:20 AM The UK must "come down hard" on the South African coronavirus variant, the health secretary has said, after cases with no links to travel were detected. About 80,000 people in England will be offered urgent tests for the variant.Residents aged 16 and over in eight areas across Surrey, London, Kent,...

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