Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
In local coronavirus updates, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with technology company heads to discuss methods to improve public communication over the coronavirus outbreak. An eighth person has died in the UK after testing positive for the coronavirus. Health officials confirmed the rise of the death toll to eight after the death of two elderly people. In total, 456 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed so far in the UK, up from 373 a day earlier. Also, an employee of the Barclays London Canary Wharf office has tested positive for coronavirus. Barclays confirmed that the employee worked on the ninth floor of the 5 North Colonnade office where the Barclays investment bank workers are housed. Britain unveiled a 30 billion-pound stimulus plan to help the economy as it faces the risk of a coronavirus recession, hours after the Bank of England slashed interest rates in a double-barrelled response to the crisis.
PM Boris Johnson’s spokesman said that Britain and the European Union shall keep under review if the next round of talks on their future relationship will be going ahead as was earlier planned in London. Coronavirus spread has raised questions on whether officials should be travelling for meetings. The spokesman said that decisions regarding talks due to be held from March 18th to 20th will be made with the European Union’s input.
Four boys sustained injuries from a stabbing incident in northeast London’s Walthamstow, according to British police. The four boys were aged between 15 to 16 years of age and were taken to the hospital sustaining stab injuries which seemed not to be life-threatening.
Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape after giving a rambling court statement sympathizing with men accused of sexual misconduct during the #MeToo era.
The sentence was handed down in Manhattan criminal court by Justice James Burke, with Weinstein’s lawyer Donna Rotunno afterwards denouncing the prison term as “obscene” and “cowardly” and saying the judge and jury “caved” under the pressure of the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassment.
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