Neave Barker

Two weeks af­ter coro­n­avirus re­stric­tions be­gan to ease, while busi­ness lead­ers sup­port the idea, many are stick­ing to work-from-home prac­tis­es.

Em­per­or Naruhi­to ex­press­es ‘deep re­morse’ over his coun­try’s wartime ac­tions at a som­bre an­nu­al cer­e­mo­ny.

Wa­ter en­gulfed the sec­ond-largest city Thes­sa­loni­ki and it is es­ti­mat­ed as many as 3,000 homes have been dam­aged.

This week, the Bank of Eng­land fore­cast the econ­o­my would con­tract by 9.5 per­cent over the year.

As gov­ern­ment tries to coax peo­ple from their homes and back to the shops, they hope mak­ing masks manda­to­ry will help bo

The re­view fol­lows warn­ings from the hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tor that busi­ness­es and jobs could be se­vere­ly af­fect­ed when they re­open if the cur­rent re­stric­tions re­main in place.

A UK re­port brings into fo­cus the se­vere ef­fect the pan­dem­ic is hav­ing on many young and vul­ner­a­ble minds.

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion is warn­ing against com­pla­cen­cy, as some Eu­ro­pean coun­tries ease re­stric­tions.

More than 60,000 peo­ple have been in­fect­ed across the coun­try, in­clud­ing Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son.

The British gov­ern­ment says it is putting sci­ence at the heart of all coro­n­avirus plan­ning.