Test ALL care home residents and staff every week or coronavirus crisis in the sector will continue to burn, says boss of one of UK’s largest providers Sam Monaghan, chief executive of MHA, said routine testing was only solution Results from Government pilot found 20 out of 28 MHA homes had infected staff At least … Read more
Will the City of London EVER go back to the office? Major banks continue working from home with no concrete plans to return despite lockdown easing Boris Johnson announced last Sunday people should return to work if they could The City of London and Canary Wharf is still sparsely populated on Wednesday Finance firms confirmed … Read more
Wet markets selling live animals including bats, dogs and snakes are continuing to operate across South-East Asia, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Shocking pictures and videos show the animals crammed into tiny cages at markets in countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and China, where the outbreak is believed to have first emerged. One … Read more
Bonfire of fixed-rate savings accounts: Best buy offers up in smoke as providers blame coronavirus for pulling deals Some 62 one, two, three and five-year fixed-rate deals have gone since March Savings rates have continued to slide since the coronavirus hit Britain Challenger bank Aldermore pulled all its non-easy-access deals from sale It said the … Read more
Israel vows to continue operations in Syria until Iran leaves after missile strike kills 14 Tehran-backed fighters Israel has launched hundreds of attacks on Syria since the start of the civil war They rarely confirm operations but have targeted Iranian forces and Hezbollah Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said: ‘Iran has nothing to do in … Read more
Florida has now officially reopened with most coronavirus restrictions being lifted as of today as about half of all US states partially reopen their economies after the lockdown. As part of the reopening in Florida, which has seen 1,300 deaths and 36,000 infections among its 21.5 million residents, retailers and restaurants across much of the … Read more
What will meal times look like a year from now? Will we be going out to restaurants again whenever we can, weary of months of home cooking, or will our habits have permanently changed? The latter would be good news for supermarkets and their shares. Before the pandemic, food from bars, cafes, coffee shops and the … Read more
Armed anti-government protesters descended on the state capitol in Kansas while supporters of President Trump did the ‘MAGA dance’ near a large float outside the governor’s mansion in Lansing, Michigan, on Thursday as protests continued against state-mandated closures of businesses during the pandemic. Hundreds of people protested Thursday against Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s stay-at-home order … Read more
Crowds of locals continue to flood beaches in Jacksonville, Florida after the shores reopened to the public Friday after being shutdown due to the cornavirus pandemic. Jacksonville beaches opened at 5pm on Friday during limited hours and with restrictions, even as Florida recorded its highest single-day increase in confirmed coronavirus cases. And the crowds came out for … Read more
Spain‘s overnight death toll from the coronavirus rose to 567 on Tuesday, while the country reported its lowest increase in new cases since March 18. The country’s total death toll now stands at 18,056, passing the 18,000 mark, while confirmed cases of the infection rose by 3,045 to 172,541, the Health Ministry said in a … Read more