Schools in Scotland and Wales will shut on Friday, officials said, with England expected to follow suit as Britain unveiled planned emergency powers to deal with the spiralling coronavirus outbreak. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under mounting pressure to close schools, as other European governments have done, particularly in light of increasing staff shortages. […]

Isis has warned its followers to avoid travelling to Europe because of the coronavirus outbreak. Reversing its previous calls for jihadists to target the area, the terrorist group advised supporters not to enter “the land of the epidemic”. It also appeared to back guidance to the public to wash their hands regularly. The directive is […]

Information blackout only lifted in certain events like family illness, say producers Some of the last people in the world to find out about the rapid spread of Covid-19 are a group of 14 men and women sitting in a house in Cologne, western Germany, where they are competing in the country’s 13th season of […]

The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing its reputation over the novel coronavirus as the pandemic became the latest row between the powers. The clash came on the day that the World Health Organization said more cases and deaths had been reported in the rest of the world […]

Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, warned in a televised address to the nation Monday that most residents would get coronavirus, but he ruled out a full lockdown like other European countries. Rutte says his government wants to build “group immunity” while waiting for a vaccine, by letting the least vulnerable people catch the virus while […]