UK

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will start testing its own COVID-19 tracing app on the Isle of Wight from Tuesday, hoping that the technology in combination with more testing and tracking will help limit transmission of the coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: Tube tests are pictured pictured as media visit the Microbiology Laboratory of the University Hospital (CHUV)

Britain’s Secretary of State of Defence Ben Wallace leaves Downing Street 10 in London, Britain February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Having COVID-19 was “bloody awful,” British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Monday, saying that the virus had sapped his energy, reduced his will and temporarily taken away his sense of taste

LONDON (Reuters) – Facing questions over why Britain’s death toll from the new coronavirus was now the second-worst in Europe after Italy, a British minister said on Sunday people should not jump to conclusions and the full picture was not yet clear. A Police officer with people in Trafalgar Square, following the outbreak of the

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick speaks during a daily news conference to update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain May 2, 2020. Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Considering China’s actions regarding the novel coronavirus crisis is something that the United Kingdom will look at later

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll rose 621 to 28,131 as of May 1, just short of Italy which has so far had the world’s second most deadly outbreak of the disease after the United States. As Britain shadows Italy for the grim status of being the worst hit country in Europe,

Undated handout photo released by Kensington Palace of Princess Charlotte, who celebrates her fifth birthday Saturday, taken in April by her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, on the Sandringham Estate, where the family helped to pack up and deliver food packages for isolated pensioners in the local area. Duchess of Cambridge/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters)

Traffic is seen on the M6 motorway near Goostrey, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Goostrey, Britain, May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Molly Darlington LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has met its target of reaching 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, health minister Matt Hancock said on Friday, though the number of different

LONDON (Reuters) – British factory output risks falling by more than half during the current quarter after 80% of manufacturers reported a collapse in orders due to the coronavirus, trade body Make UK said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Stainless steel tubes seen at a factory in Britain, October 30, 2018. Christopher Furlong/Pool via REUTERS Make

LONDON (Reuters) – A day after his fiancee gave birth, Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a meeting of his top ministers on Thursday to discuss how to ease Britain’s lockdown amid a backdrop of rising deaths and questions over the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives back at 10

LONDON (Reuters) – British World War Two veteran Captain Tom Moore, who has become a national hero after raising almost 30 million pounds for the health service, celebrates his 100th birthday on Thursday with an honorary promotion and two military flypasts. Former British Army Officer Captain Tom Moore, appointed the first Honorary Colonel of the

FILE PHOTO – Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks outside 10 Downing Street after recovering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, April 27, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold his traditional weekly conversation with Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday evening by phone, a spokesman for his Downing Street

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry is helping “Thomas and Friends” celebrate their 75th anniversary by introducing a special episode which features the cartoon trains as well as some members of the royal family. Britain’s Prince Harry is pictured during the recording of his on-camera introduction to the new animated special “Thomas & Friends: The

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is on track to record one of the worst coronavirus death tolls in Europe, after data published on Tuesday showed nationwide fatalities topped 24,000 nine days ago. An ambulance drives past Aylestone Baptist Church, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Leicester, Britain, April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Boyers A day

MILAN/LONDON (Reuters) – Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries. Britain’s Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock at Downing Street, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19),

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to work on Monday after recovering from COVID-19 with a warning that it was still too dangerous to relax a stringent lockdown hammering Britain’s economy for fear of a deadly second outbreak. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks outside 10 Downing Street after recovering from the coronavirus

LONDON (Reuters) – Britons can be broadly split into three groups by their response to the coronavirus lockdown: those accepting the situation, those suffering as a result of it and those resisting it, analysis published by King’s College London showed on Monday. FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a face mask walks across Westminster Bridge with