Australia: Opposition slams Melbourne quarantine hotels in July When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters.Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer.Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights.You can unsubscribe at any time. While the coronavirus pandemic has devastated several countries

Myanmar: Voters queue to cast ballots in 2020 election Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested by the country’s armed forces in a pre-dawn raid. The country’s military said it had declared a state of emergency and would take control of the country for one year, in what UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson described as an

Europe ‘could have asked for more vaccines’ says Scholz On Friday the French newspaper led with the headline, “Vaccination: ‘Brexit 1, Brussels 0’. French news outlet Le Figaro argued that the bloc should have been vaccinating quickly, “to stop the virus when it mutates, circulates faster, and is likely to become more dangerous”. Le Figaro added: “The shortage of vaccines

Granada: Building in Atarfe seen damaged following earthquake There have been more than 150 earthquakes in the Granada province of Spain since December 2020. The seismic activity focused this week in the Granada surroundings of Santa Fe, Atarfe, and Chauchina. The aftershocks have caused little damage so far and Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN) has prepared a report on the

Patrick Vallance shuts down Hancock’s coronavirus variant claim “It used to be the case that we focussed our attention on sophisticated laboratories that could potentially manufacture deadly pathogens,” said Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, author of ‘Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and saving lives at war’. “But what Covid-19 has taught us is that it doesn’t take a sophisticated or even very deadly pathogen