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Travel News

Is it safe to go on a cruise right now?

With travel restrictions easing around the world, cruise liners are trying to tempt tourists back. But is it safe?

Health news

COVID vaccines for children: How do European countries compare?

The EMA authorised the use of the Pfizer vaccine for children over 5 years-old and the Omicron variant has put a renewed focus on countries' vaccination campaigns. Which European countries are now vaccinating young people?

World News

COVID-19 in Europe: England ends all coronavirus restrictions

Here is our summary of the latest pandemic situation across the continent.

Travel News

Europe could drop testing for fully-vaxxed Brits before Easter

The European Council is seeking to simplify EU testing rules for UK tourists.

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Health news

Fact check: Is Queen Elizabeth’s COVID being treated with ivermectin?

Anti-vaxxers and COVID sceptics seized on a mistake in an Australian news broadcast about Queen Elizabeth's COVID diagnosis to push an antiparasitic drug as a treatment for the virus against medical advice.

United Kingdom

Boris Johnson announces end of COVID restrictions in England

Some experts have criticised the easing, warning it may be premature.

United Kingdom

UK's Queen Elizabeth tests positive for COVID-19 with 'mild' symptoms

Buckingham Palace described the 95-year-old monarch's symptoms as "cold-like", adding that she would continue to carry out "light" duties at Windsor Castle.

Canada

Trudeau says protests must end, truckers brace for crackdown

Truckers have been protesting for three weeks against Canada's COVID-19 restrictions.

Green News

Bodies of COVID victims could be polluting water, scientists say

During decomposition the human body leaches heavy metals into the soil, potentially contaminating water supplies.

Europe News

Germany and Austria eye end to most COVID rules in March

Germany saw infections caused by the highly contagious omicron variant surge later than in several other European countries.

Health news

More children hospitalised during the Omicron surge compared to Delta

A new report by the CDC showed that child hospitalisation rates quadrupled during the Omicron surge compared to during the Delta surge.

Health news

COVID vaccines in pregnancy protects newborn babies, says new study

The findings shed light on whether the benefits of vaccination during pregnancy extend to infants who would be too young to receive COVID vaccines.

Netherlands

Dutch government to drop most COVID-19 restrictions as infections fall

Mask wearing and working from home will no longer be required.

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Overwhelmed Hong Kong hospitals set up outdoor wards

Two Hong Kong hospitals begin placing patients in beds outside their entrances, as medical facilities struggle to cope with the city's worst coronavirus wave to date.

World News

Europe's Omicron wave is 'moving east', warns WHO

The number of COVID-19 infections has doubled in six countries in the WHO Europe region over the past week.

Canada

Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has invoked emergency powers to try to quell the protests by truck drivers and others over COVID-19 restrictions.

Culture news

New Zealand authorities blast 'Baby Shark' to disperse protestors

No earworm was off limits for the hundreds protesting Jacinda Ardern's new COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public service occupations.

Canada

Key US-Canada bridge reopens after police clear protesters

The crossing normally carries 25% of all trade between the two countries, and the blockade on the Canadian side had disrupted business in both countries, with automakers forced to shut down several assembly plants.

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Hundreds at anti-virus rules protest in the Hague

Protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 rules marched through The Hague for a second day on Sunday, in solidarity with Canada's trucker demonstration.

Canada

Police peacefully disperses anti-covid protests at US-Canadian border

The protests at the Ambassador Bridge and elsewhere have been aimed at vaccine mandates and other coronavirus restrictions.