Blues guitarist Robert Cray has dropped out of Eric Clapton’s U.S. tour citing the British guitar legend’s anti-lockdown stance as well as his opposition to coronavirus vaccine mandates.
Austria’s chancellor on Thursday stepped up threats of lockdown measures for unvaccinated people, as new coronavirus cases in the Alpine country are soaring.
Germany reported a record-high number of coronavirus cases on Thursday and mulled legislation for new coronavirus measures.
An NHS chief has been accused of spreading fake news after she claimed that 14 times more people are hospitalised with COVID than last year.
Government authorities in China’s northeastern Russian border city of Heihe declared a “people’s war” against the community’s latest coronavirus epidemic on Sunday, offering rewards of 100,000 yuan ($15,640) to people who “provide clues” to local officials that help them trace the outbreak’s origins, the Global Times reported Monday.
About 2,000 people marched through Wellington to the New Zealand parliament on Tuesday to protest the country’s recent coronavirus vaccine mandate and strict lockdowns.
Van Morrison is being sued for libel by Northern Ireland’s Health Minister after the singer called him “dangerous” for his lockdown policies.
The UK will look to become the first country to make the coronavirus an endemic disease with annual vaccine booster shots, said Nadhim Zawahi.
The UK is set to change the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ to mean three jabs and will impose travel restrictions on people with only two.
British Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said Britons need to “come together” and get their booster shots for the Chinese coronavirus to “avoid a return to restrictions and enjoy Christmas”.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – While people are now able to travel freely in Australia’s more populated east, COVID-19-free Western Australia will maintain its tight restrictions into next year, state leaders said Friday.
As with so many other world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing one of his toughest political challenges due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Beijing canceled half of all flights into and out of the city and locked down its most populous neighborhood — considered the “largest residential area in Asia” — on Tuesday to contain the spread of nationwide coronavirus outbreak that threatens to overtake the Chinese national capital just three months before it is scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
New Zealand’s government announced plans on Monday to ease coronavirus restrictions in Aukland despite state health officials earlier that same day recording the country’s highest number of new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
Shanghai Disneyland shut down on short notice on Sunday and refused to allow any of the theme park’s 34,000 visitors to leave the facility until they were tested for the Chinese coronavirus after allegedly detecting just one new case of the disease in a woman who visited the site one day earlier, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday.
The Chinese Communist Party has imposed coronavirus lockdowns in recent days on residents near both the country’s southern borders — near Myanmar — and northern borders — near Russia.
The West faces descending into a two-tiered society of the “jabbed” and “jabbed-nots” in which the unvaccinated will become “modern-day social lepers”, Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned.
A British government medical advisor has admitted that a so-called ‘Plan C’ for dealing with Covid-19 over the Winter has “been mentioned”, despite a minister denying last week that such plans, which could include a ban on households mixing, had been discussed.
Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.
An impact assessment conducted by the British government has reportedly found that rather than slowing the spread of the Wuhan virus, vaccine passports may serve to increase its transmission.
A leading Australian political cartoonist has been sacked by his newspaper after likening the enforcement of vaccine mandates in the former British colony to Tiananmen Square.
The first official weekend of enforcement of Scotland’s vaccine passport system has been described as an “unmitigated disaster” with foot traffic falling by as much as 40 per cent at some venues.
Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “mandate vaccines” and to force companies to fire employees who do not take the jab.
People in Austria who have not been vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus could face lockdown restrictions if hospitals are overrun, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed vaccine passports as an “infringement on our liberties” and predicts the government will bring back lockdowns if Chinese coronavirus cases rise.
The French government is considering requiring a third jab of a coronavirus vaccine in order for people to continue to qualify for the country’s vaccine passport, which is required to access many public spaces including cafes, bars, and restaurants.
A document inadvertently published by the British government before being hastily deleted reveals some lessons officials learnt from the coronavirus pandemic, including “deep set reverence” for government authority, apparently regardless of political affiliation.
The Communist Party in Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China’s Gansu province, sealed off the city’s residential communities and banned residents from leaving on Wednesday after allegedly detecting six cases of the Chinese coronavirus in the city of 4.4. million, the state-run Global Times reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Wednesday to declare the week of October 30 as “non-working,” so workers can stay home and slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Britons are more frightened of being in enclosed or poorly ventilated spaces with people not wearing masks as they were in July before coronavirus restrictions were lifted, according to a poll.
A health minister has denied reports that Cabinet Office officials are considering a stricter “Plan C” for handling the coronavirus pandemic during Winter, which could include banning households from mixing.
The act gives sweeping powers under the pretext that Britain is experiencing a crisis so catastrophic it justifies government by fiat.
A Christian pastor who grew up under the tyranny of the Soviet Union in Poland is now banned from traveling outside of the Canadian province where he lives, and the judge who heard the case also ordered Artur Pawlowski to read in public a prepared statement on the coronavirus.
Britons have been told to do as they are instructed “not just to save lives, but to keep your freedoms too”.
The British government’s business secretary has seemingly “ruled out” lockdown restrictions being imposed during the winter months.
Members of the House of Commons were seen laughing as they extended emergency coronavirus powers for the government without an official vote.
Downing Street has warned of a “challenging” Winter ahead, suggesting that restrictions in reserve such as domestic vaccine passports could be imposed if the number of cases gets too high. While Professor Neil Ferguson has said that a Plan B may need to be implemented if Covid cases increase.
A woman who was injured in the large apartment bombing in Gothenburg, Sweden late last month has died in a local hospital.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Sydney will end hotel quarantine for vaccinated passengers when scheduled international flights restart in Australia within two weeks, officials said on Friday, while maintaining some restrictions on foreigners entering the country.
The Australian police officers who sprayed an elderly woman in the face as she was on the ground with pepper spray are under investigation.
