Prince Harry taking ‘measures’ PANIC-STRICKEN INDIAN STUDENTS ‘WARTIME’ SCENE IN UK DESPERATE TO GET HOME IN UK AS 71 DIE OF CONTAGION
London, March 18: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson Prince Harry is said to be taking “appropriate measures” after he was seen hugging Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton at an event in the UK earlier this month before flying out to join wife Meghan Markle and son Archie in Canada.
Hamilton was pictured with British actor Idris Elba and Sophie Trudeau, the wife of the Canadian Prime Minister — both of whom have since tested positive for Covid-19.
In another development, the Queen has cancelled all her appointments for the next few months and is set to leave Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday to be based at Windsor Castle for an extended period of time amid the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak which has claimed 71
London, March 18: Indian students in the UK are desperate to return to India and have flooded the Indian High Commission here with queries about when they are likely to get back home and be with their families, as New Delhi bans travellers from Britain starting on Wednesday due to the fast-spreading Covid-19 pandemic.
Universities and student
lives in the country. The monarch, who turns 94 next month, was to host a series of garden parties and Easter related events but will now spend time indoors in Windsor, southeast England, in consultation with her medical experts associations in the UK are putting out advisories to try and calm some of the panic among the students, many of whom are on visas that are close to expiry and others who simply want to be with their loved ones as all face-to-face classes begin to be cancelled. Many were booked on flights later this month but are now stranded at least until March 31. and the UK government. Her regular “audiences” with PM Boris Johnson are to continue but as a “sensible precaution and for practical reasons”, a number of other changes are being made to the rest of her diary.
London, March 18: The UK must act like a “wartime” government and do whatever it takes to support the country’s economy, Prime Minster Boris Johnson said as Britain’s death toll from the Covid-19 rose to 71 and the number of cases stand at nearly 2,000.
The cases exploded by
407 to 1,950 on Monday, the biggest daily rise. “We must act like any wartime government and do whatever it takes to support our economy,” he said. Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged the government to suspend home rental fees and ban evictions of tenants during the Covid-19 crisis.