With lockdown restriction easing in some countries like Spain and Italy, restaurants, parks and churches are putting in place creative solutions to ensure social distancing continues. People sit in circles designed to encourage social distancing as they relax in Domino Park along the East River in Brooklyn, New York…
World Rugby is making contingencies in case cross-hemisphere travel is not possible for international teams until 2021World Rugby has created a $100m (£80m) relief fund to help relieve the financial pressure on the global game from the coronavirus pandemic.Scottish Rugby announced a series of pay cuts, in addition to furloughing about 75% of its staff,…
Sassuolo became the first Serie A side to resume training since the coronavirus crisis halted the season.A handful of players appeared and ran and up and down the pitch with the club saying training is optional.Top-flight clubs were given permission to restart individual training sessions, but team training will not be allowed until 18 May…
There’s clear water in the Venice canals, blue skies over Delhi and wild animals are roaming boldly in locked-down cities. The oil industry and airlines are floundering in this new world, and carbon emissions are falling fast. But there are also mountains of food going to waste that our supply chains aren’t set up to…
Experts are pondering the long-term environmental impact of the coronavirus. Pollution levels in China have gone down an estimated 25% as the country has been on lockdown.But the same time, medical masks and gloves are washing up on the beaches in Hong Kong. Experts warn that the decline in emissions could change as governments lift quarantine orders…
Italy imposed strict restrictions seven weeks ago to curb the spread of the coronavirus Italy has outlined plans to ease the strict restrictions imposed seven weeks ago to curb the spread of the coronavirus as it recorded its lowest daily death toll since mid-March.Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said curbs would…
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Sunday night the nation would ease the West’s longest lockdown on May 4, gradually reopening parts of the economy — first, construction and manufacturing — while keeping most movement restrictions in place.In a national address, Conte described a society that will look little like it did two months ago,…
The coronavirus death toll shot past 20,000 in Europe on Saturday, with Italy and Spain each reporting more than 800 dead in one day, as US President Donald Trump pulled back on putting the hard-hit New York region under quarantine.Up to one-third of the world’s population is under lockdown as the virus…
