As Britain faces a shortage of staff in hospitals due to surging coronavirus cases, the defence ministry announced said it will deploy troops in London hospitals.

Omicron surge: UK to deploy troops, military medics to help hospital staff

As the UK grapples with a surge in virus cases, UK PM Boris Johnson hit out against anti-vaccine campaigners declaring that they were "putting this mumbo jumbo on social media: they are completely wrong".

People putting mumbo jumbo on social media: Johnson slams anti-vaccine campaigners

Amid a surge in Omicron variant cases in the capital, London mayor Sadiq Khan declared a "major incident" after 26,418 virus cases were reported in the last 24 hours.

'Major incident', declares London mayor Sadiq Khan amid Omicron threat

UK PM Boris Johnson urged citizens to remain cautious as daily coronavirus cases fell for the seventh day in a row. The Johnson government had lifted coronavirus restrictions on July 19 as data showed the virus had fallen 50 per cent over the past week from 46,558 to 23,511 on Tuesday.

'Still in third wave': UK PM Johnson urges caution as virus figures fall for seven days

As PM Boris Johnson's government gets set to reopen Britain on July 19 removing most of the coronavirus restrictions, Lancet medical journal has said despite the vaccination, "exponential growth will probably continue until millions more people are infected, leaving hundreds of thousands of people with long-term illness and disability.

UK government embarking on dangerous and unethical experiment, says Lancet on July 19 reopening plans

British health secretary Sajid Javid told the British Parliament that the government would be moving to the "next step of our roadmap on July 19" as authorities get ready to lift most coronavirus restrictions.

'Time to get closer to normal life': UK targets lifting of Covid curbs on July 19

Heathrow, Britain's biggest airport, said on Thursday a first quarter loss of 329 million pounds ($459 million) took total losses since the start of the pandemic to nearly 2.

London's Heathrow Airport sees first quarter loss of over 300 million pounds amid pandemic

Some London locals tipped off the police complaining about a birthday party amid a lockdown in the UK. However, when the police reached the venue, it turned out to be something different.

London: Police raid birthday party to find cardboard-made guests

London now has the highest percentage of people testing positive for novel coronavirus amid a new strain of Covid-19 that UK officials believe spreads faster, as per the Office for National Statistics.

London emerges as new hotspot in UK, 1-in-85 people infected

As the UK grapples with the virus, PM Johnson announced today that Tier 4 restrictions will now apply in London and other parts of England from Sunday. Watch: The British PM added that southeast and east England will also enter Tier 4 restrictions.

'New virus variant more transmissible': PM Johnson puts London & southeast England on Tier 4 lockdown

After the reports of a new variant of COVID-19, World Health Organisation has said that there is no evidence to suggest that the mutation will impact the effectiveness of vaccines against the disease.

No indication new Covid-19 variant in UK interferes with vaccine effectiveness: WHO

As the UK started vaccinating the masses for the existing novel coronavirus, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Monday that a new variant of the deadly virus has been identified in the country.

New variant of coronavirus identified in UK; London in tier 3 lockdown

As the UK went into another nationwide lockdown, Britain's roads were flooded with vehicles causing traffic jams of nearly 1,200 miles. The capital city of Britain, London, recorded nearly 2,624 traffic jams in the city within a few hours.

Traffic jams as long as 1200 miles seen in London before coronavirus lockdown

More than 1,800 students and staff from universities across the north-east of England, currently under tougher localised lockdowns, tested positive for coronavirus over the past week.

Over 1,800 students, staff at North England universities test positive for coronavirus

Hundreds of volunteers posed naked in a park in London -- all for an art installation. The installation was the first major participatory work of art since the United Kingdom went into coronavirus-induced lockdown in March.

Hundreds pose nude wearing only masks in London. All in the name of art

London's nightlife scene have been dormant since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic while pubs have reopened under certain conditions, nightclubs & concert halls remain mostly shut. Watch the report.

London's nightlife scene dormant since start of the Coronavirus pandemic

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has applauded the local authorities and schools for the arrangements made for reopening of the schools amid the pandemic. The Prime Minister has said he is "really impressed" and is looking forward to children returning back to schools from next week, a test of his government after it failed to return all children to schools earlier this year.

UK PM Boris Johnson 'really pleased' with reopening of schools

After announcing a partial reopening of the economy, UK government has announced plans of making face masks compulsory for people inside shops and supermarkets from July 24.

COVID 19: Britishers to wear face mask inside shops too from July 24

A small group of protestors gathered in London's Hyde Park to protest against the government's way of handling the coronavirus pandemic. The protestors were seen deliberately breaking all rules of social distancing.

London protests: 19 arrested for deliberately breaking social distancing guidelines

The death toll due to coronavirus in the United Kindom shot up to 739 fatalities in the last 24 hours with the death toll crossing 27,500 on Friday. Also Read: After Australia & US, European Commission chief calls for probe into coronavirus There are 172, 481 infected cases in the United Kingdom, according to Johns Hopkins coronavirus resource centre's live tracker.

Britain records 739 COVID-19 fatalities in 24 hours; death toll rises to over 27, 500

British PM Boris Johnson, 55, who was hospitalized after showing "persistent symptoms" of coronavirus is in "good spirits", his spokesman said. Also Read: You’re fighter, you'll overcome this challenge, PM Modi to Johnson PM Johnson was admitted at night in St Thomas' Hospital in London and remained "under observation", the spokesman informed.

British PM Boris Johnson in 'good spirits' after being hospitalised due to COVID-19

India and the European Union have postponed the 15th India-EU summit that was to take place in Brussels on March 13 over coronavirus fears. PM Modi was supposed to go for the summit whose main focus was to kick-start talks on India-EU free trade agreement.

India-EU summit postponed over coronavirus fears