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 news, Wednesday showed the biggest daily jump in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Britain with the total count now up to 85. On Tuesday, the confirmed coronavirus case number was up to 51. Worried lawmakers believe that the 19th-century British parliamentary palace, its grand offices and wood-panelled meeting rooms are ill-equipped to deal with coronavirus. A multi-billion pound renovation is due- the toilets are out of order most of the time, temperamental heating is commonplace in the offices and most of the doors in the building’s oldest part can only be opened on pressing a button or twisting a metallic doorknob.
On Prince William’s first official Ireland visit, he asked emergency workers if they believed that the coronavirus has been hyped by the media. In other royal news, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will appear together at an official engagement on Thursday.
The appearance will be at an awards ceremony for wounded service personnel, also one of their last before they quit as working members of the royal family.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his intention to cut down the number of days that a worker has to wait to qualify for the state minimum sick pay in cases where they isolate themselves due to the coronavirus. In parliament, Johnson stated that emergency coronavirus legislation will have measures to permit the payment of statutory sick leave from the first absent day instead of the current rule of four days.
British police charged another man as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in the back of a truck last year in London. 27-year-old Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga was charged with an immigration office and is due for an appearance in the east London Basildon Magistrates’ Court.
British environment minister George Eustice is optimistic on reaching an agreement by July with the European Union over future fishing rights considering that they are not suggesting anything extraordinary.
The European Commission unveiled a “climate law” to make the EU’s 2050 net-zero emissions target legally binding, but Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and NGOs said more urgent action was needed to beat the climate crisis.
The European Union’s executive approved the proposed regulation at a meeting attended by Thunberg.
The climate law, which needs the approval of the European Parliament and member states, would commit the 27-nation EU to reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
Thunberg said the law fails to address the next 10 years.
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