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FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack is seen at Downing Street in London, Britain, December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack has developed mild symptoms consistent with coronavirus and is self-isolating, a spokeswoman for his ministry said on Saturday. Prime Minister Boris

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is scaling up coronavirus testing for frontline National Health Service (NHS) staff, with hundreds of tests due to be carried out in coming days and many more next week. The United Kingdom has so far reported 14,579 cases of the virus and 759 deaths, with the peak of the epidemic in

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he had tested positive for coronavirus and was self-isolating at Downing Street but would still lead the government’s response to the accelerating outbreak. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson applauds outside 10 Downing Street during the Clap For Our Carers campaign in support of the NHS,

An elderly woman is seen walking past a public information sign by the A4 road in West London as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is working as quickly as it can to get ventilators, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris

LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have left Canada and moved to Los Angeles, where they plan to make a permanent home after stepping back from their royal duties, Britain’s Sun newspaper reported on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive for the annual Commonwealth Service at

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s oldest zoo is shut to the public for the first time since World War Two as London locks down because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for the roughly 18,000 animals housed there, life must go on. FILE PHOTO: Heidi the lion is seen during the annual stocktake at ZSL London

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Charles looks on during a visit to the London Transport Museum, in London, Britain March 4, 2020. Victoria Jones/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday said Prince Charles, who has coronavirus, did not jump the queue for a test because his symptoms and condition met the criteria. Charles

LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus but is in good health and is now self isolating in Scotland with mild symptoms. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Charles looks on during a visit to the London Transport Museum, in London, Britain March 4, 2020. Victoria Jones/Pool

LONDON (Reuters) – Testing as many people as possible for the coronavirus is vitally important but a global shortage of testing equipment is causing a supply bottleneck, British medical authorities said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty speaks at a briefing on COVID-19 measures, as the number of coronavirus cases

A woman walks her dog in Burgess Park, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in London, Britain, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) – More than 170,000 people have signed up to help Britain’s National Health Service tackle the coronavirus outbreak just hours after a request for a quarter of a million

LONDON (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus deaths in Britain jumped on Tuesday, the first day of a national lockdown, while the government called for 250,000 volunteers for the health service and announced a temporary hospital would open in London next week. In a TV message on Monday evening watched by more than 27 million

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom went into lockdown on Tuesday as the number of coronavirus deaths jumped and the government called for 250,000 volunteers for the health service, as it announced a temporary hospital would open in London with help from the military. In a TV message on Monday evening watched by more than

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain awoke to a virtual lockdown on Tuesday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered people to stay at home, shops to close and an end to all social gatherings to halt the spread of coronavirus. People jog in Battersea Park, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain,

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered Britons to stay at home to try to halt the spread of coronavirus, closing non-essential shops, telling people not to meet with friends or family and warning those who do not follow the rules face fines. A woman watches British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s press

A person works out with the City of London behind as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – A further 54 people have died in the United Kingdom after testing positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 335, the

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain sent in the army to deliver protective equipment to hospitals on Monday and told people to stay at home and heed warnings over social distancing or the government would bring in more extreme measures to stop the coronavirus spread. A woman wearing a mask is seen walking over London bridge with

LONDON (Reuters) – UK scientists are to track the spread of the new coronavirus and watch for emerging mutations by using gene sequencing to analyse the strains causing thousands of COVID-19 infections across the country, Britain said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin,

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain may need to impose curfews and travel restrictions to halt the spread of the coronavirus if people do not heed the government’s advice on social distancing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a news conference on the ongoing situation with the coronavirus

LONDON (Reuters) – Countries can’t simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said on Sunday, adding that public health measures are needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on. FILE PHOTO: Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergencies program Mike Ryan speaks at

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Saturday urged 1.5 million people identified by the National Health Service (NHS) as being at higher risk of severe illness if they contract coronavirus to stay at home to protect themselves. General view of a near deserted Carnaby Street as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. London, Britain March

FILE PHOTO: A “Do Not Enter” sign and National Health Service (NHS) information about the coronavirus is displayed at the entrance to a Doctors surgery in North London, Britain March 13, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has struck a deal with the country’s independent hospitals that will see more

A general view in a deserted Piccadilly Circus in London as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) – A further 39 people have died in England after testing positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in the country to

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William has called on the public to heed government advice on how to stop the spread of coronavirus as he hailed health workers battling the outbreak. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, talk with staff during a visit to the London Ambulance Service 111 control room,

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson effectively closed down the United Kingdom on Friday, ordering pubs, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and gyms to shut their doors in a bid to slow down the accelerating spread of the coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news conference inside 10

FILE PHOTO: A British Airways plane taxis past tail fins of parked aircraft to the runway near Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain March 14, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – British Airways pilots will have to take two weeks of unpaid leave in both April and May as well as a

TOKYO (Reuters) – A plane carrying the Olympic torch from Greece will arrive on Friday on Japan’s northwestern coast ravaged by a 2011 tsunami, but the welcome ceremony will have no spectators, amid worries that the Games could be cancelled over a coronavirus pandemic. Olympics – Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony – Panathenaic Stadium, Athens, Greece

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom put 20,000 military personnel on standby, closed dozens of underground train stations across London and Queen Elizabeth left the city for Windsor Castle as the coronavirus crisis shut down whole swathes of the economy. As the coronavirus outbreak sweeps across the world, governments, companies and investors are grappling with

Empty restaurant tables are seen as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Employers in the United Kingdom expected employees’ pay to be subdued in 2020 even before the coronavirus outbreak put British businesses in jeopardy, a survey of private sector employers conducted

HAVANA (Reuters) – A British cruise ship that has been stranded for more than a week in the Caribbean after several cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed onboard is set to dock in Cuba on Wednesday to allow weary passengers to disembark and fly home. The British cruise ship MS Braemar is seen docked

FILE PHOTO: The Houses of Parliament can be seen as people wearing protective face masks walk across Westminster Bridge, as the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases around the world continues to grow, in London, Britain, March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – It’s normally the rowdy highlight of the British parliamentary week, a