India brings in immediate night-time curfew for New Delhi after country saw a record surge in Covid-19 cases with more than 100,000 in a day The night curfew will be in place from 10pm to 5am in India’s capital, New Delhi Essential services and travelling to and from vaccination centres are exempt India had the … Read more
Covid rule-breaker dies after Philippines police ‘made him do 300 squats as punishment’ for going out to buy water after 6pm Darren Penaredondo, 28, died April 3 in the Philippines after suffering seizures He had been arrested on the night of April 1 after breaking curfew to buy water Police allegedly forced him to do … Read more
France will enter a third national lockdown for four weeks, French president Emmanuel Macron announced in an address to the nation on Wednesday night. The decision comes as a third wave of Covid-19 – blamed largely on the so-called ‘British variant’ of the virus – surges across Europe and countries face a race against time to … Read more
The Miami Beach city commission on Sunday voted to extend an extraordinary 8pm curfew and emergency powers for up to three more weeks to help control unruly and mostly maskless crowds that have converged on the party destination during Spring Break. Thousands of people have packed the city’s Art Deco Cultural District resulting in bedlam … Read more
Spring breakers invading Miami Beach have become so uncontrollable that authorities imposed a curfew on Saturday and declared a state of emergency as SWAT teams were seen moving in to clear people out. A SWAT vehicle was filmed moving down Ocean Drive – a popular party street – and using an LRAD, also known as … Read more
Married Tory councillor is suspended for dressing up as a woman in protest at proposals for a 6pm curfew for all men after Sarah Everard’s murder Mark Deacon, Conservative councillor for Plymouth, posted image on Facebook Said he would wear a floral pink dress and long black wig if curfew was imposed He has been … Read more
A Green Party peer has defended calling for a 6pm curfew for men to make women feel safe at night – but clarified the suggestion was ‘not entirely serious’. Baroness Jones was criticised after using a House of Lords debate to propose legislation that would require all men to stay at home. She raised the … Read more
French president Macron tells nation that curfew must stay for at least another month as health chief says 6pm lock-in rule is ‘working very well’ Macron had been speaking during official trip to Seine-Saint-Denis earlier today He stressed curfew would need to remain in place for another four to six weeks It comes as France’s top … Read more
England’s 10pm coronavirus curfew on pubs and restaurants did nothing to reduce the spread of the disease, a study has suggested. Scientists looked at data from nearly 4,000 Britons to measure the effect of various lockdown measures last summer and autumn. They found the controversial curfew, introduced on September 24, had ‘no measurable effect’ on reducing the number … Read more
A Dutch court today ordered the government to lift a Covid curfew that sparked the Netherlands’ worst rioting for decades – saying authorities had misused emergency powers meant for more perilous crises such as a dyke breach. The 9pm curfew was the first to be imposed in the Netherlands since the Nazi occupation in World … Read more