Paul Brennan

Al Jazeera tells you why some Eng­lish com­mu­ni­ties are re­fus­ing to go cash­less.

The UK is set to waive its 14-day quar­an­tine for peo­ple ar­riv­ing from coun­tries it con­sid­ers to be low risk for coro­n­avirus.

Coro­n­avirus data col­lec­tion rules are said to be a tran­si­tion mea­sure, but how long they will con­tin­ue for is an open ques­tion.

Wa­ter­ways near Rus­sia’s Siber­ian city of No­ril­sk have been rapid­ly pol­lut­ed by a spill of more than 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel in re­cent days

Pri­ma­ry school chil­dren in Eng­land start re­turn­ing to lessons af­ter 10 weeks of lock­down, as the UK gov­ern­ment eas­es some coro­n­avirus re­stric­tions.

Italy, Spain, Aus­tria, Fin­land and Den­mark be­gin to lift move­ment re­stric­tions as their in­fec­tions num­bers ease.

Aus­tria, Spain and Italy lift some move­ment re­stric­tions but UK to re­view its curbs as has many un­re­port­ed deaths.

France has en­tered na­tion­wide lock­down – with thou­sands of po­lice on the streets to fine peo­ple if they can­not prove they are buy­ing food or go­ing to work.

Gov­ern­ment an­nounces mea­sures to hold so­cial me­dia plat­forms ac­count­able for harm­ful con­tent for bet­ter pro­tec­tion of on­line users.

Ear­ly count­ing sug­gests left-wing par­ty mak­ing big gains as vot­ers heed mes­sage of health and hous­ing.