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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Why UK is delaying second dose of vaccines

Last Covid effects, Taiwan plans Covid free country, fresh wave in South Korea, and other pandemic-related news from across the globe

India-UK flights to restart from Jan 6, UK-India services from Jan 8: Puri

Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday flights from India to UK will resume from January 6, while services from that country to here would resume from January 8 onwards. "Resumption of flights between India & UK: India to UK from 6 Jan 2021. UK to India from 8 Jan 2021. 30 flights will operate every week. 15 each by Indian & UK carriers," Puri said on Twitter. "This schedule is valid till 23 Jan 2021. Further frequency will be determined after review," he added. Earlier, Puri had announced on Friday that only 30 flights per week will operate between India and the UK when services resume from January 8 and that this arrangement will continue till January 23. India had suspended all passenger flights connecting the two countries from December 23 to January 7 as a new variant of coronavirus emerged in the UK.

UK court: Debit Rs 450 cr from accounts of top Pakistani diplomat

Following the court orders, the United Bank Limited UK wrote a letter to the Pakistan High Commission on Dec 29, requesting it to provide written payment instructions with debit account details

Brexit: In northern France, first trucks cross new customs border with UK

Moments after Britain completed its divorce with the European Union, the first trucks hauling goods across the new customs border presented their clearance documents to French agents

UK is free to do things differently, says PM Johnson post Brexit hours

UK PM Johnson said Britain would now be an "open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free trading" country that is "free to do things differently and if necessary better" than the EU

India Coronavirus dispatch: Science, health likely to be key focus in 2021

SpiceJet health firm's plan for vaccine rollout, a new British govt study on the UK variant, 2020 in pictures-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Four test positive for new coronavirus variant in Delhi: Health minister

Four people in the national capital have been found to be positive for the new coronavirus variant on Thursday, all have been admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said

'Boris the betrayer' has swindled us over Brexit, England's fishermen say

For England's fishermen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit trade deal is a betrayal because it allows some European Union boats continued access to Britain's rich inshore coastal waters

UK parliament approves Brexit trade deal with EU as both look to future

British lawmakers approved post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Wednesday, as both sides looked to begin a new chapter of relations just days before their divorce becomes a reality

New Covid-19 strain could have entered India prior to Dec: AIIMS Director

All India Institute of Medical Sciences director Randeep Guleria on Wednesday said that it is a possibility that the new mutation could have been present in the country even in November

UK at 'critical moment' as 1-day rise in Covid deaths nears 1,000: Johnson

The UK is at a "critical moment" in the fight against Covid as the single-day rise in the death toll neared 1,000 on Wednesday, the largest increase since April, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said

Kerala logs over 6,000 Covid-19 cases, 29 returnees from UK test positive

As many as 29 people who recently returned to Kerala from the UK have tested positive, Health Minister K K Shailaja said on Wednesday

Bengal reports first case of new coronavirus strain first seen in UK

West Bengal has reported its first case of a mutant coronavirus strain that surfaced in the United Kingdom, a senior health official said on Wednesday

2-year-old UK returnee tests positive for new coronavirus strain in UP

A two-year-old girl who recently returned to Meerut with her parents from the UK has been found to be infected with the new Covid-19 strain.

14 more UK returnees test positive for new strain of coronavirus in India

Twenty people who returned to India from the United Kingdom have tested positive for the new UK variant genome of SARS-CoV-2 so far, the Union Health Ministry said

Two more contacts of UK returnees test coronavirus positive in Delhi

Two more contacts of people who were found infected with Covid-19 after returning from the United Kingdom have tested positive for the disease, officials said

UK signs free trade agreement with Vietnam: Trade Secretary Truss

The United Kingdom and Vietnam signed an agreement on free trade, Trade Secretary Elizabeth Truss said Tuesday

Vaccine will protect against new variant: Principal Scientific Advisor

Govt will initiate studies to see relationship between new strain and seriousness of the disease; there have been 17 changes in spike protein of the virus, of which eight are key

37 people who returned from UK test positive for Covid-19 in Goa

Thirty seven passengers out of 979, who travelled from the UK from December 9 till the midnight of December 22, have tested positive for Covid-19

Foresee slight extension of suspension of UK flights: Hardeep Singh Puri

Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said he foresees a slight extension of temporary suspension of passenger flights between India and the UK