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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia, after bringing its coronavirus outbreak largely under control, said on Friday it is seeking an exemption from a requirement that travellers arriving in the UK quarantine for 14 days to prevent the spread of COVID-19. FILE PHOTO: Travelers wearing protective face masks depart the arrivals section of the international terminal of

A social distancing banner is display beside Brighton beach following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Brighton, Britain, May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Matthew Childs LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has agreed a deal to acquire antibody tests, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, saying the tests would be free and health and

FILE PHOTO: Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney speaks to media in a count centre, during Ireland’s national election, in Cork, Ireland, February 9, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s proposal on Wednesday that its Brexit divorce deal would require no new customs infrastructure in Northern Ireland will be met with scepticism

BURNLEY, England (Reuters) – For Reuters photographer Hannah McKay, a recent trip to take pictures at a hospital in northern England required the kind of planning more typical of a foreign assignment. Neonatal Nurse Kirsty Hartley carries newborn Theo Anderson, who was born prematurely, to his mother Kirsty Anderson, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll has reached nearly 43,000, underlining the country’s status as the worst-hit in Europe and raising more questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the crisis. FILE PHOTO: An NHS worker wearing a protective face mask opens an ambulance during the Clap for our Carers campaign

FILE PHOTO: A student walks inside a francophone primary school during its reopening in Jumet, as a small part of Belgian children head back to their schools with new rules and social distancing measures, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Jumet, Belgium, May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman LONDON (Reuters) – There are

FILE PHOTO: A man walks his dog past coronavirus artwork painted on the shuttered windows of a pub following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Dublin, Ireland, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo DUBLIN (Reuters) – Northern Ireland gently eased its coronavirus restrictions on Monday, allowing small groups to meet outside and churchgoers

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom has added the loss of smell and taste to its official list of COVID-19 symptoms including fever and new continuous cough – a step that it hopes could help pick up about 2 percent more cases of novel coronavirus. A woman wearing a face mask and gloves walks on

FILE PHOTO: A cyclist wearing a protective face mask passes the London Eye on an almost empty Westminster Bridge, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people who have died in the United Kingdom after testing positive for COVID-19 rose by

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted on Sunday that there was public frustration with his government’s measures to ease the coronavirus lockdown following widespread criticism of the new rules, which he admitted were more complex. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a daily news conference to update on the

LONDON (Reuters) – London police arrested 19 people on Saturday for deliberately breaking social distancing guidelines in protest against the rules, on the first weekend since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a slight loosening of England’s lockdown. The Metropolitan Police said that a group in central London’s Hyde Park had been protesting about the government’s

FILE PHOTO: Katie Ffolloitt-Powell of the Patient Transport Services of South Central Ambulance Services speaks to an elderly non-COVID-19 patient as she is moved from hospital to a care home, in Portsmouth, Britain May 5, 2020. Picture taken May 5, 2020. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Dogs’ ability to sniff out whether people

LONDON (Reuters) – Cars will be banished from miles of streets in central London to encourage more walking and cycling and help public transport cope with social distancing restrictions, the city’s mayor said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: People and buses are seen on London Bridge at the height of the traditional morning rush hour, following

LONDON (Reuters) – London’s transport operator, which has seen passenger numbers collapse due to coronavirus, said it had secured 1.6 billion pounds in government funding for cover a shortfall in revenue until October. People step off a train at Clapham Common underground station following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 14,

NHS workers react at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital during the Clap for our Carers campaign in support of the NHS, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 14, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs LONDON (Reuters) – Britons joined in a weekly nationwide round of applause on Thursday to pay tribute to care

LONDON (Reuters) – Lloyd’s of London is likely to pay out $3.0-4.3 billion in claims related to the coronavirus pandemic and underwriting and investment losses for the global non-life insurance sector could reach a record $203 billion, Lloyd’s said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A worker enters the Lloyd’s of London building in the City of