Brits will be able to take holidays in beauty spots in places like Devon and Cornwall – as the Prime Minister officially announced staycations from July 4. Boris Johnson made the announcement in the House of Commons, paving the way for families languishing in lockdown to finally get away from a break. Hotels were given … Read more
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Some of Europe’s most famous landmarks are still nearly deserted even as the continent starts to emerge from lockdown. St Peter’s Square in the Vatican – often heaving with worshippers – has been nearly empty except for a handful of visitors and nuns even after the basilica re-opened its doors. In Venice, gondoliers are back … Read more
Travel bubbles, sea bridges, quarantines — no wonder there’s a lot of confusion surrounding holidays as restrictions ease. The UK’s blanket quarantine on all those coming into the country will be reviewed every three weeks, and could be lifted by early July. Countries across Europe are preparing to reopen, too. We look at what your … Read more
It’s a dead weird way of amassing a following on Instagram. An artist has garnered over 18,000 followers on the social media site by posting snaps that show her playing dead in tourist hotspots around the world, while bemused tourists and locals look on. Stephanie Leigh started the bizarre Stefdies picture series eight years ago … Read more
Even the blue face mask covering the Iranian-British businessman’s face couldn’t conceal his consternation as he emerged into the arrivals hall at Heathrow Airport. Before boarding his Iran Air flight from Tehran, Farzad Parhizkar’s temperature – and those of the other 80 or so passengers – was checked by a laser-beam thermometer, he told me. … Read more
Areas with large ethnic minority populations make up more than three quarters of England’s coronavirus hotspots, a report has revealed. But numbers coming from Muslim communities in areas which could be expected to be hard-hit are low, and cultural habits may be protecting England’s Muslims from the fast-spreading disease. That’s according to a report by Professor … Read more
Super-rich lockdown flouters hold the key to Britain’s back door: How private jets are flying hundreds of passengers from coronavirus hotspots into UK due to ‘lax border controls’ A staggering 545 private planes entered UK since lockdown began on March 23 Among them were 25 from Spain and 15 from US – world’s worst-affected nation … Read more
As the majority of the US continue to see a decrease in fevers during the coronavirus pandemic, states in the West are seeing increases. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. One of the company’s maps, which tracks … Read more
Travel data shows a shocking 3.8 million travelers from countries that would end up hardest-hit by the coronavirus outbreak entered the U.S. as the pandemic was starting. Figures from the U.S. Commerce Department from December, January and February, which were the critical early months in the outbreak, reveal how hundreds of thousands or even millions of … Read more