China travel curbs take toll on Prudential with sales of its policies in Hong Kong down 48% By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:22 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 13 May 2021 Border lockdowns have caused Prudential’s Hong Kong business to suffer Travel restrictions between Hong Kong and mainland China marred … Read more
Boris Johnson faced calls to lift lockdown faster last night as Covid infections, hospital cases and deaths hit a six-month low. Four NHS regions – covering 29million people across southern England – reported no deaths on Sunday. Just 23 fatalities were logged elsewhere. The average daily death toll is now 63 – 95 per cent below … Read more
Boris Johnson has been warned that failing to reopen international travel for the summer would blow an £18billion hole in the economy. The prime minister has been facing growing pressure to include international travel in his roadmap for easing lockdown, due to be published today, Monday. On Thursday, the bosses of some of Britain’s biggest … Read more
Minister Helen Whately today hinted postcode lockdowns will be imposed by the Government to stop the spread of dangerous coronavirus variants when national curbs are eased. The measures are said to be under consideration in Whitehall as Boris Johnson prepares to unveil his lockdown exit strategy on Monday next week. Ms Whately appeared to confirm … Read more
The news comes as a body blow to a country that is reeling and surely can not take much more. Despite the success of the vaccine programme, which will see all vulnerable people protected against Covid-19 in a month, it seems lockdown will largely continue until July. Restaurants and churches possibly still closed. Travel impossible. … Read more
Tough crackdowns on travellers entering the UK squeezed airline stocks yesterday. In a bid to halt the spread of new and possibly more dangerous Covid variants, UK residents returning from 33 ‘red list’ countries will have to stump up £1,750 to quarantine in a Government-sanctioned hotel for ten days. In a further move, people travelling … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing a battle royal on lockdown today as Tories demands all curbs are dropped in May when over-50s are vaccinated – but SAGE modelling suggested even a slower easing could mean 130,000 more deaths. The PM is under renewed pressure to step up the reopening of the country after the government accidentally … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing a battle royale on lockdown today as Tories demands all curbs are dropped in May when over-50s are vaccinated – but SAGE modelling suggested even a slower easing could mean 130,000 more deaths. The PM is under renewed pressure to step up the reopening of the country after the government accidentally … Read more
The Covid tiers system could be scrapped after lockdown under plans to ease restrictions on a national basis, the Mail can reveal. Boris Johnson is looking again at whether the country should go back to a system of regional tiers, which was credited with slowing the spread of the virus but ultimately failed to head … Read more
The Covid tiers system could be scrapped after lockdown under plans to ease restrictions on a national basis, the Mail can reveal. Boris Johnson is looking again at whether the country should go back to a system of regional tiers, which was credited with slowing the spread of the virus but ultimately failed to head … Read more