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The last restrictions on public gatherings and businesses won’t be repealed until June at the earliest, Boris Johnson said Monday.

Following a two month nationwide lockdown, hotels, gyms and swimming pools in Israel reopened Sunday for vaccinated and recovered coronavirus patients, while other venues including museums and shopping malls reopened to all public.

LONDON (AP) — The British government announced a small step out of the nation’s lockdown on Saturday – allowing nursing home residents to have a single friend or family member visit them indoors.

The United Kingdom, which the EU compared to a “speedboat” in vaccine development, has committed to giving 80 per cent of its spare doses to the third world once all adults in Britain have been vaccinated.

The British government’s Home Office has launched a bizarre social media campaign in the style of the cringe-inducing anti-pirating warnings from the early millennium, including one message telling Britons “You shouldn’t make your own pub”.

British government ministers are moving to scrap EU caps on aid to businesses forced to shut by lockdown, which have persisted despite Brexit. 

A government scientific advisor has said that vaccination numbers are looking “so good”, there’s hope of lifting lockdown early.

Government ministers are reportedly pressuring Prime Minister Boris Johnson to reconsider his personal objections to the introduction of immunity certificates for domestic use, which the senior MPs claim could help save the hospitality and entertainment industries.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he wants “this lockdown to be the last”, but would not rule out a fourth.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said that the British government will not commit to an “arbitrary” date to end lockdown, after a group of Conservatives has called for restrictions to be lifted after a large proportion of Britons have been vaccinated against coronavirus.

(AFP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the country’s biggest city Auckland into a snap lockdown for the first time in nearly six months on Sunday after three coronavirus cases emerged in the community.

A 23-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing his 8-year-old sister during the Wuhan virus lockdown claims the charges were brought due to the colour of his skin.

Locals in the city of Milan have warned that many businesses, particularly restaurants, face permanent closure due to the lockdowns implemented to stop the spread of the Wuhan virus.

Rep. Jason Smith told Breitbart News Friday that House Democrats, in private discussions with him, have said school shutdowns should end.

A London psychiatrist has said he is not under any doubt that the coronavirus lockdown has led to a surge in mental health referrals for children, saying the figure had “skyrocketed”.

Social distancing measures and mask-wearing could be enforced until the end of the year, despite Britain’s coronavirus vaccine progress.

Senior Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith has condemned as police going mad with “unlimited power”, after reports that a police officer told two young children playing in a park to go home and play in their gardens, even though they lived in an apartment.

A couple caught having sex by police officers on Dartmoor on the coldest night for 26 years have earned praise from some social media users.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised Health Secretary Matt Hancock for being “drunk on his own power” after introducing a law making it a criminal offence to lie about having travelled from a coronavirus ‘red list’ nation, which could result in ten years in prison.

Former British Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption has branded lockdowns “thoroughly inhumane”, saying the policy comes at a “cost” of the misery of millions of people.

Travellers arriving in the United Kingdom face up to ten years in prison if they were found to have lied about travel history and fines of up to £10,000 if they breach quarantine rules, Britain’s health secretary announced on Tuesday.

A Conservative MP has warned that the government risks “losing the sense of urgency” to ending England’s third lockdown.

British government sources believe bosses will be able to use Health and Safety regulations to sack workers who do not get vaccinated.

Britain’s Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said that Britons may need to have a third coronavirus shot in the space of one year to protect against strains of the Chinese coronavirus, adding that people may need annual boosters.

A leading health expert in the UK has warned that government restrictions on large public gatherings will have to be in place for the “next few years” because of the Chinese coronavirus.

BERLIN (AP) – Industrial production in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, stagnated in December after seven consecutive months of gains, official data showed Mond

The Economist ranked France as a “failing democracy” due to the restrictions on freedoms Emmanuel Macron’s government imposed during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

The government is reportedly working on a “vaccine passport” in anticipation that holiday destinations like Greece will demand proof of immunity before granting entry to visitors.

A member of the government’s influential scientific committee has said that pending the continued successful rollout of the coronavirus vaccines, the UK could get “more or less back to normal” by Summer.

Hong Kong’s new “ambush-style” coronavirus lockdowns have caught residents off guard, with some reporting they were “trapped” inside shops and salons overnight by the last-minute quarantines.

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer is “concerned” that health technocrats are “moving the goalposts” in order to justify keeping the country locked down, reports suggest.

Amid record-high deaths from alcohol, an increase in reports of children committing self-harm, and more people experiencing suicidal thoughts during the lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed an ‘Ambassador for Mental Health’. The Prime Minister has tapped TV personality

Demark is preparing to introduce coronavirus vaccine passports to open up overseas travel by the end of the month, in what is believed to be the first governmental immunity certification in the world.

Conservative MPs have called upon Prime Minister Boris Johnson to look to end lockdown restrictions after a study claimed that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine cuts transmission of the Chinese coronavirus by over two-thirds.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that England will not return to the tiers system at the end of its third lockdown because the infectious nature of the new coronavirus strain renders the system redundant, and over reported concerns of the economic recovery of some areas of the country.

A police commissioner and a deputy prosecutor were caught dining out at an underground restaurant in violation of the country’s corona rules.