Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
City of London representatives vote on whether to remove statues of two figures from its Guildhall medieval ceremonial home that symbolise the financial sector’s historic role in slavery .
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that it is too early to say when the national COVID lockdown in England will come to an end. He added that persistently high infection levels showed the extent to which the new variant was infectious.
The manufacture of AstraZeneca and Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine has not been disrupted by flooding that occurred near a Welsh factory, which deals with the supply chain, manufacturing partner Wockhardt said, adding the site was operating as normal.
President Joe Biden will approve 10 executive orders to battle the coronavirus pandemic, including directing that disaster funds should be used to help open schools again and making it mandatory that people wear masks on planes and buses, officials said.
A twin suicide bombing turned fatal for at least 13 people and injured more than 30 in a Baghdad market in a rare attack in years, security and medical sources said.
The Netherlands will implement its first night-time curfew since World War II in an attempt to control the spread of COVID-19. This has come after a majority of lawmakers backed the emergency measure during a debate.
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