Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to consider quarantining visitors from England to Scotland by one of her most trusted advisors. Edinburgh University’s Prof Devi Sridhar – described in the Telegraph as “one of the most influential members of the Scottish Government’s Covid-19 advisory group” – said the first minister should think about introducing quarantine for […]
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The United Kingdom formally commenced a free-trade negotiation with Australia and New Zealand, almost five months after its exit from the European Union (EU). A report by Al Jazeera on Wednesday quoted Australia’s Trade Minister Simon Birmingham that the country started talks with the two parties as part of its diversification strategy amid its dispute […]
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The United Kingdom is opening its doors to three million residents of Hong Kong by relaxing its visa restrictions amid the ongoing political turmoil in the former British territory. In an opinion piece published in the South China Morning Post on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the UK government will consider its […]
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With the NHS contact tracing app pilot scheme well underway on the Isle of Wight, civil liberty groups remain concerned about privacy violations. Although uptake may be as low as 20 per cent, the government hopes to make the app an integral element of its plan to ease restrictions. Getting the economy back up and […]
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Energy companies in the United Kingdom are on track to invest multibillions of pounds in a bid to deliver a cleaner energy. Scottish Power for instance, said that it was planning to invest in clean power in Scotland as part of a £150-million project that aimed at electrifying the country. The project was expected to […]
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Boris Johnson has unveiled the first steps out of the coronavirus lockdown with a new slogan that had already been rejected by the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK’s ‘stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives’ slogan will still be the key message everywhere across the nation, except in England, […]
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The National Health Services (NHS), along with medical institutions, was calling on ministers to woo drug manufacturers into the United Kingdom to reduce the potential shortage of drugs amid the virus outbreak. Both the NHS and the Kidney Care UK were asking the UK government to focus on spurring the country’s manufacturing sector. “Future government […]
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Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned social distancing measures put in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic could extend into 2021. Sturgeon said a return to “the normal life that people knew” was “not on the cards in the near future” during the Scottish government’s daily press briefing in Edinburgh. The first minister published […]
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Amid fears that the true death toll of coronavirus patients remains unclear, the ONS COVID-19 figures go some way toward revealing the true picture. Care staff workers say the actual numbers may be far higher. According to Tuesday’s ONS statistics, the number of people who died from the novel coronavirus in the week leading up […]
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Boris Johnson’s government has resumed Brexit talks with the European Union after several rounds of meetings had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Scottish government has called for a two year extension to the transition period as the clock ticks ever closer to the official December 31 deadline, when the transition period […]
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