Summer holidays all but cancelled as downbeat Boris Johnson warns over third wave on continent

Summer holidays all but cancelled as downbeat Boris Johnson warns ‘things are looking difficult on the continent’ with a new wave of Covid and refuses to confirm if he will go abroad with his family The Prime Minister faced a wide-ranging grilling from senior MPs this afternoon  Foreign travel due to restart no earlier than … Read more

Fears of European third wave of Covid hammers travel stocks 

Summer holidays in peril over Covid rise: Fears of European third wave hammers travel stocks By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 22 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 22 March 2021 Shares in airlines and travel firms slumped after another Government minister warned Britons against booking summer holidays. A surge in … Read more

Boris Johnson warns that a THIRD WAVE of Covid in Europe could ‘wash up on our shores’

Boris Johnson warned that a third wave of coronavirus currently sweeping across Europe could ‘wash up on our shores’ today as he tried to fight off a fresh rebellion by lockdown hawks. The Prime Minister is facing Tory backbench demands to speed up the UK’s journey out of lockdown off the back of the runaway … Read more

India faces second wave as Covid cases soar

A second wave of the pandemic is looming in India with Covid-19 cases rocketing to their highest level in months and pressure growing for vaccines to be used at home rather than exported to Britain and around the world.   India added 46,951 new cases to the tally today in its bleakest day since November 11 … Read more

Surge in Covid cases across Europe could see summer holidays cancelled and threatens UK third wave

A surge in Covid cases across Europe could see summer holidays cancelled and threatens a potential third wave in Britain, government scientists have warned. Outbreaks of the South African variant in countries throughout the continent is causing particular concern, sparking calls for tougher travel restrictions. As a result, some experts fear European getaways in May, … Read more

Europe coronavirus: Third wave has begun, Germany’s top virus expert says

Germany has recorded a sharp rise in coronavirus cases as the country’s top disease expert warned a third wave of the disease has started.  There were 14,356 new cases of Covid reported in Germany on Thursday, the Robert Koch Institute said, up from 9,146 cases the previous day. Deaths also increased from 300 reported Wednesday … Read more

Clear Leisure and Catenae Innovation ride the digital wave

A company’s share price does not normally rise after it places shares at a discount – quite the reverse – but Clear Leisure has pulled off this rare trick. Less than two weeks after raising £680,000 by placing shares at 0.6p each the investment company raised a further £1million by placing shares at a penny … Read more

French vaccination drive ‘too slow to prevent third wave’

The pace of France’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is too slow to prevent new lockdown measures being needed to halt a third wave of hospitalisations, top scientists say.   Experts at the prestigious Institut Pasteur say the current pace of around 100,000 jabs a day is ‘insufficient’ to rein in the effects of the highly contagious UK … Read more

Merkel admits -‘We are in coronavirus third wave’: Germany urges population to take AstraZeneca jab

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is now in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, two sources told Reuters news agency. ‘We are now in the third wave,’ Merkel told lawmakers in her conservative party on Wednesday, according to two sources who attended the meeting. The chancellor is also said to have warned … Read more

Kate Garraway gives a big wave while heading to work

Kate Garraway continued to put on a brave face on Monday, amid her husband Derek Draper’s coronavirus battle.  The Good Morning Britain presenter, 53, gave a big wave as she headed inside the Global Radio Studios in London on Monday ahead of her Smooth Radio show.  She looked incredible wearing a yellow sweater which she … Read more