TUI operating at about 30 percent of its capacity this summer!
coronavirus
16 Jun 2020
/ 19:14
Some countries are hesitantly lifting lockdown, whilst others continue to record new cases. Guarded statements about a vaccine. Europeans wary as the summer begins.
- German travel company TUI has restarted some holidays for its customers from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland following months of lockdown across Europe. TUI added that it would be operating at about 30 percent of its capacity this summer.
- One of the UK's showpiece horseracing events of the year, Royal Ascot, is set to begin on Tuesday without spectators. At the five-day event, which can attract up to 70,000 spectators a day including the Queen, all jockeys will wear masks and everyone entering the course will be subjected to a temperature check.
- Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been hospitalized after she tested positive for COVID-19. She is said to be in a stable condition.
- Russia's daily cases rose by 8,248 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 545,458. Deaths also rose, by 193 to 7,284.
- Germany's deaths rose by nine, bringing the cumulative total to 8,800. Infections also rose, by 378 to 186,839.
- Spain is considering the introduction of a quarantine period for people entering from the UK, its foreign minister, Arancha Gonzalez Laya admitted.
- COVID-19 vaccine trials are set to begin in the UK this week. Researchers at London's Imperial College will begin the trials on 300 people, aged between 18 and 70, to determine whether the vaccine is effective.
- The potential COVID-19 vaccine being tested by AstraZeneca is likely to provide protection against the coronavirus for about a year, according to its CEO Pascal Soriot.
- Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday to remove special powers granted to its prime minister Viktor Orban.
- One of the UK's showpiece horseracing events of the year, Royal Ascot, is set to begin on Tuesday without spectators. At the five-day event, which can attract up to 70,000 spectators a day including the Queen, all jockeys will wear masks and everyone entering the course will be subjected to a temperature check.
- Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been hospitalized after she tested positive for COVID-19. She is said to be in a stable condition.
- Russia's daily cases rose by 8,248 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 545,458. Deaths also rose, by 193 to 7,284.
- Germany's deaths rose by nine, bringing the cumulative total to 8,800. Infections also rose, by 378 to 186,839.
- Spain is considering the introduction of a quarantine period for people entering from the UK, its foreign minister, Arancha Gonzalez Laya admitted.
- COVID-19 vaccine trials are set to begin in the UK this week. Researchers at London's Imperial College will begin the trials on 300 people, aged between 18 and 70, to determine whether the vaccine is effective.
- The potential COVID-19 vaccine being tested by AstraZeneca is likely to provide protection against the coronavirus for about a year, according to its CEO Pascal Soriot.
- Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday to remove special powers granted to its prime minister Viktor Orban.
