Vietnamese man faces five years in jail for Covid rule break September 7, 2021 A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail for spreading Covid after he flouted lockdown rules and infected eight people. Le Van Tri, 28, was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious diseases” during yesterday’s trial which alleged he had caused eight people to become infected including one who died. “Tung travelled back to [...]
Raab, Gove and Shapps forced self-isolate after close contact with Covid case December 9, 2021 Three cabinet ministers have both been forced into self-isolation after being in close contact with Australia’s Covid-positive Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce. Justice secretary Dominic Raab, communities secretary Gove and transport secretary Grant Shapps will have to stay at home for ten days after meeting with Mr Joyce for trade-talks in London earlier this week. [...]
Israel warns for sharp drop in Pfizer’s double jab protection against Covid July 8, 2021 Israel is experiencing a sharp drop in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in preventing infections and symptomatic illness, the country’s Health Ministry has said. It did stress, however, that the jab remains highly effective in preventing serious illness. Lauren Anthony has more. Watch the full video report.
Bailey: Bank of England walking ‘tight line’ on taming inflation and hitting growth April 21, 2022 The Bank of England is walking on “a very tight line” between taming inflation and heaping greater woe on the UK economy. That’s according to Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, who, speaking to the Peterson Institute today, added that the historic high cost of living is going to result in “very [...]
Bullish Omicron assessments boost global markets December 1, 2021 A string of bullish assessments from global health leaders downplaying the severity of the Omicron variant boosted global markets yesterday. Investors shook off concerns over the Covid-19 variant derailing the world’s fight against the pandemic and poured back into stocks. London’s premier FTSE 100 index shot up 1.55 per cent to close at 7,168.68 points [...]
IMF: UK economy to toy with recession this year – and fall to the bottom of global growth leaderboard April 11, 2023 Britain is steering toward the bottom of the G7 economic growth table this year and will toy with a recession for most of 2023, the world’s economic watchdog warned today. UK gross domestic product is tipped to shrink 0.3 per cent per cent in 2023, the weakest performance of any economy in the group of [...]
‘Bye Mykonos’: the music stops on Greece’s party island July 20, 2021 In the early hours of Sunday the usually-bustling street’s of Greece’s famed party island Mykonos were quiet after authorities imposed new Covid-19 restrictions, including a music ban, to the anger of business owners and tourists. Watch the full report.
Spotify content chief calls Joe Rogan backlash a ‘real learning experience’ February 9, 2022 Spotify’s chief content officer Dawn Ostroff told advertisers at a New York conference today that the Joe Rogan backlash had been a “real learning experience” for the company. “We do feel that we have a responsibility to support creator expression, but also balance that creator expression with safety for our users and for our advertisers,” [...]
Ted Baker steams ahead with UK expansion despite Omicron dent to sales February 23, 2022 Ted Baker is set to steam ahead with its UK expansion plans – with hopes of a least three new stores each year over the next three years – despite the Omicron-induced dent to sales. The retailer saw sales plunge 42 per cent during the Omicron surge, in comparison with the final quarter of 2019. [...]
Investment in London office space returns to pre-pandemic levels January 5, 2022 Investment into London offices has returned to pre-pandemic levels, new research has revealed, after the pandemic nearly killed off the traditional workplace. Investors pumped £11.3bn into office transactions last year, preliminary data from property agent CBRE found, matching 2019’s figure. The cash injection was nearly 50 per cent higher than the £7.6bn recorded in 2020, [...]