Several destinations, including Malta, the Netherlands and Gibraltar, will now likely be added to a list of countries that require visitors to be quarantined for up to two weeks after their return to the UK.
While cases in France are on the rise, The Sun understands that it has yet to the point where officials feel the need to pull air bridges.
This comes when thousands of A-level academics were devastated, after test regulators revealed that 40% of grades had been reduced.
Because exams were canceled during closing, a set of computer rules is used for the first time to adjust teacher grades to 250,000 students.
Those guilty of the exams of teens admitted to Ofqual who do not have to go to a university will have to wait until next week to find out how the appeal procedure works.
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus deaths has decreased to 5377 as a result of pressure on how deaths are recorded.
This means that from now on, deaths within 28 days of positive coronavirus control will be counted in the official figure.
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NHS WAITING LISTS HIT HIGH RECORD
New figures from NHS England have revealed that the number of people waiting more than 18 weeks for regimen hospital treatment in England is at its highest level.
June figures, described as “outrageous” by doctors, show that more than half a million patients in England had been waiting for more than six weeks for a key diagnosis after being referred through a GP.
A total of 540,593 patients were waiting for one of 15 tests, adding MRI, non-obstetric ultrasound or gastroscopy.
The equivalent number in June 2019 40099.
DJOKOVIC WILL PLAY WITH US OPEN DESPITE FEARS OF VIRUSES
Novak Djokovic has shown that he will compete at the U.S. Open in New York e this month.
Several players have already withdrawn from the tournament, four-time winner and defending champion Rafael Nadal, for fear of the coronavirus.
But the world number one, who tested at the Covid-19 in June after the debatable Adria Tour, wrote on their website: “I’m pleased to see that I’m competing in the Western and South Open and the US Open this year.
“It wasn’t a simple resolution to take with all the obstacles and demanding situations on many sides, but the prospect of re-competing excites me.
ITALY’S COVIDE PROBE ‘MUST BE DROPPED’
Prosecutors investigated Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and six members of his government about how they dealt with the coronavirus crisis, but the case was dropped, Conte’s workplace said Thursday.
Judicial appeals showed that prosecutors had investigated ministers after prosecutions in recent months in cities on murder charges, creating a pandemic and restricting the political rights of Italians.
The Rome-based prosecutors concluded that the fees were unfounded and that the case was dropped, the prime minister’s place of work said in a statement.
FOOD SALES INCREASE IN PUBS AND RESTAURANTS
Food sales in UK pubs and restaurants increased by almost a third in the week following the launch of the government’s Eat Out to Help Out grant programme, knowledge consultantic CGA said Thursday.
Food sales increased by 95% to 106% during the first 3 days of the show presented on Monday, August 3, on the same days as last week.
Sales over the next 4 days, when the discounts were applied, fell, but left accumulation from week to week by up to 31%, CGA said.
A-level academics were devastated after test regulators revealed that 40% of grades had been reduced; however, academics generally earned the A and A-S peak in a decade.
Hundreds of thousands of students across the country this morning have been getting their A-level results – despite not sitting any exams this year because of the coronavirus crisis.
A breakdown of the effects published this morning revealed that good fortune rates increased by 0.7% (those with EA) in 2019 and 2018. The A’s were taken until 2009.
DOORS OPEN: THE SAFEST HOLIDAY HOTSPOTS
There are still some countries with fewer than 20 new ones per 100,000 across Europe at the moment.
These are the European destinations that are still within the “safe” perimeters; caution is required if you book your holiday electronically well in advance.
Curse!
Hundreds of thousands of British tourists in France will now know if they will be quarantined when they return.
Ministers are gathering today to remove part of a dozen countries from undetected travel corridors and France has been described as “about to be included”.
But France’s unhrified prestige will defeat the holiday plans of some 400,000 Britons.
UK ‘does not face second wave’
The UK is at the start of a wave of coronavirus and is still looking to finish the first, recomfiing new data.
The most recent prevalence figures estimate that another 24,131 people in the UK have a symptomatic Covid-19 lately.
According to the data, the amount of symptomatic coronavirus nationwide has remained stable.
Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, said: “This is further confirmation that we are not at the beginning of a wave of moments and that we are looking to finish the first one. The figures also recommend that the epidemics we see in other countries such as Belgium, France and Spain are not yet having an effect here in the UK.
“In the most sensible of that, the warm weather that has caused fear in bringing many other people closer to crowded beaches and parks does not seem to have the expected negative impact.
“Overall, we are pleasantly surprised by this week’s figures, which have returned to grades in early July and we expect the news to continue.”
FOUR TIMES THAT MANY LONDONS HAD A VIRUS LIKE CORN, THE STUDY SHOWS
Covid had four times more Londoners than Cornish citizens, according to the eldest of its kind.
An examination through Imperial College London shows that one in eight people living in the capital has inflamed since the onset of the pandemic.
It compares with less than one in 33 people in the southwest.
More than 100,000 volunteers used household antibody kits to track the spread of the virus.
The effects recommend that six% of other people in England, about 3.4 million other people, have already had the virus.
This is more than ten times higher than the 314,000 Britons who have tested positive for coronavirus.
SMOKING BAN
A region of Spain has banned smoking on the streets due to the transmission of a coronavirus.
Coronavirus cases in Spain reached 376864, with 28579 killed.
The ban, in force from today, includes “terraces where there are other people nearby”.
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CANCELLED CRUISES
Viking Cruises has cancelled all public holidays until next year due to the ongoing pandemic.
The cruise was forced to suspend until 2021 due to “complicated trips abroad”.
All passengers who have booked cruises this year can request a full refund, if requested before August 24, or a 125% long-term cruise credit.
Credits will be used within the next 24 months, and 2021 and 2022 cruises can now be booked.
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CANCER CONTROLS IN THE NHS
More and more people are starting to get ahead of themselves for cancer controls, the NHS said.
“More and more people are getting ahead of themselves for cancer control, with 45,000 additional referrals this month, and the key point remains that anyone involved in an imaginable symptom deserves to touch their GP and get tested.
THE VIRUS SPREADS RAPIDLY IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS
NHS chief Orkney expressed fear that the virus is “spreading rapidly” across the islands.
Health Board executive leader Michael Dickson said other people developed symptoms and then traveled home through Orkney and mainland Scotland.
Dickson said in a statement: “NHS Orkney is responding to a major public physical fitness challenge in Covid and we are deeply involved in the virus spreading in our community.”
“We have a genuine threat to the other people of Orkney, adding to those on remote islands, and we urge them to be careful.”
TRACK AND TRACKING FIGURES ARE REVEALED
Since the launch of NHS Test and Trace, 214,890 close contacts of others who tested positive for Covid-19 have been contacted with the tracking formula and have called for self-isolation.
This is 81.5% of a total of 263,515 other people known as relatives.
The remaining 48,625 people (18.5%) known as close contacts, but were not contacted.
Weekly figures show that 74.2% of close contacts were reached in the week ending August 5, up from 72.4% last week, but below 90.7% in the first week of Test and Trace.
NEW CONTACT TRACKING TEST APP
Residents of the Isle of Wight, Newham, London and NHS volunteers in England will conduct a new contact search application test, said the Dement of Health and Social Affairs.
The app will come with alerts based on zip codes, site QR registration, a symptom checker and a form of eBook testing, the generation evolved through Google and Apple.
Testing will begin On Thursday on the Isle of Wight and with NHS volunteers in England, followed in time by the citizens of Newham as a component of the NHS National Testing and Monitoring Service.
It will record the time and distance a user has spent near someone, even if they don’t know, so that they can alert them if that user tests positive for Covid-19.
NATIONAL EXPRESS SEE A BAG DISPLACEMENT
Bus and coaches Company National Express saw its shares drop by up to 17% after recording earlier tax losses of 122.2 million pounds during the first six months of 2020.
The organization said the number of passengers had fallen by 80% of global blockades and 90% on the maximum affected parts of the company.
It temporarily suspended all UK buses from 5 April to 1 July in the face of coronavirus blockade, but continued to reduce operations in the West Midlands and Dundee.
The organisation revealed that passenger numbers continued to decline by 80% in its UK coaching business, which operates with around 15% of seats, while the number of consumers continues to decline by 47% in the Midlands and 53% in Dundee.
TOP 10 COVIDÉ HOTSPOTS REVEALED
Parts of Essex and Scotland slipped on the list this week, with other hot spot regions dominated in the north of England.
Experts knew six new hot spots and said we were still looking to succeed on the first wave of the virus.
Halton, Cheshire, crowned the list this week with 0.34% of locals who have experienced symptoms of 1,171 others on the app.
PRIMARY SCHOOL CLOSES FOLLOWING INFECTION
A number one school has temporarily closed in Aberdeen after a case of Covid-19 connected to the institution.
Aberdeenshire City Council said several staff members at Peterhead Central Primary School are isolating the property after a case was shown on the school team.
Schoolchildren had not yet returned to school, which closed Wednesday because of weather problems.
A fitness board spokeswoman said: “We are investigating a detected case of Covid-19, connected to a number one school in Peterhead.
“Our Health Protection and Testing and Protection groups strive to determine who the close contacts may be and advise them to isolate the property.”
Hospital attendance in England fell 30% last month until a year ago, according to NHS England figures.
In total, nearly 1.6 million participants were registered in July 2020, to approximately 2.3 million participants in July 2019.
NHS England, which published the figures, said the “significantly lower” attendance rate compared to last year “is probably the result of Covid-19’s response,” suggesting that other people still stay away from AE because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The year-on-year decline of 30% for July compares to 33% in June, 42% in May and 57% in April.
JULY PUB SALES IN THE MIDDLE OF LAST YEAR
Sales of British bar, restaurant and pub chains halved in July from last summer after they reopened for the first time after closing.
Sales in July fell by 50.4% year-on-year, according to the knowledge of the most recent monthly Coffer Peach Business Tracker of hotel companies.
Bars saw their sales falling by 63.3% in the month, while sales of places to eat fell by 59.8%.
“The figures reflect the fact that the reopening of the sites has been gradual, and not all have returned to business at all, and those that are open are trading to degrees well below normal,” said Karl Chessell, director of CGA, the business knowledge consulting firm that produces the survey, along with The Coffers Group and RSM.
”POULET SURGEL”
China said Thursday that a pattern of frozen bird wings imported to Shenzhen from Brazil had tested the virus.
The discovery through local disease centers was part of revisions to meat and seafood import regimes since June, when a new outbreak in Beijing connected to the city’s Xinfadi wholesale center.
AIRPORT CITY PAUSE TERMINAL EXTENSION
London City Airport has announced a “temporary pause” in its planned expansion of the terminal, as the return of the call from passengers to pre-Covid-19 grades will “take longer than planned.”
General Manager Robert Sinclair said: “At this time, we have taken the decision to focus our attention on providing the important additional aerodrome infrastructure that will provide our current and potential air consumers with the ability to bring next-generation aircraft to this airport in a number, which will be a facet of how we build a larger and more sustainable airport.
“The final touch of the terminal extension and the new dock remains a component of our long term and, with the foundations of either in place, we are in a position to move those projects forward when the return is requested.
HONG KONG STILL IN ‘CRITICAL PERIOD’
Hong Kong reported 69 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, 65 of which were transmitted locally, while the government warned that the global monetary medium still faces a critical era for the virus, which has noticed a resurgence since early July.
Since the end of January, more than 4,200 others have become inflamed in Hong Kong, 65 of whom have died. Thursday’s figure rose from 62 on Wednesday.
PEREZ MAKES FORMULA ONE’S COMEBACK
Perez, the first formula one driving force to have coronavirus after testing positive on the eve of last month’s British Grand Prix.
“The FIA has shown that Czech can return to the F1 paddock and will compete for the team at this weekend’s Spanish GP.
Pérez is expected to appear in the media in Barcelona later on Thursday.
TUI considers debt divestment
TUI, the world’s largest tourism group, plans to dispose of parts of the company to reduce the maximum debt levels it has incurred to help you tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The corporation said it compares characteristics to “achieve an optimal balance structure.”
When asked if the organization is contemplating a rights and divestment issue, TUI executive leader Fritz Joussen said, “Yes, that’s what it is. That’s exactly what it is.
Speaking to reporters on an appeal Thursday, Joussen said any divestment would not be a forced or distressed sale.
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