Belarusian authorities have detained one of the two last leading members of an opposition council who remained free, moving methodically to end a month of protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
A new graded Covid-19 alert system will allow the Government to introduce local lockdowns based on the level of coronavirus in a county or region.
Greater enforcement powers are needed to hold nursing home providers not in compliance with national patient safety standards to account, the health watchdog has told the Health Minister.
June was a month of liberation, low levels of Covid-19 and a national lifting of spirits. It will be remembered as not only the month that hairdressers, restaurants and some pubs reopened, but also when we were free at last to travel around the country again.
The fog of war can blind soldiers to what is going on around them. The fog of the coronavirus makes it hard to understand what's happening to our world.
Thousands of migrants were left without shelter yesterday after fires gutted their overcrowded camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
A group of international scientists have questioned results from a study of Russia's fast-moving coronavirus vaccine that were published in The Lancet medical journal, saying some of the findings appeared improbable.
