# lockdown - Wednesday 22 June, 2022
# Carer
# Carer
O’Connor was stealing from the elderly woman, who had dementia, for the first four months of the pandemic.
# lockdown - Monday 9 May, 2022
# China
# China
China’s capital is trying to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with restrictions on movement.
# lockdown - Wednesday 20 April, 2022
# Shanghai
# Shanghai
China’s largest city is inching towards reopening.
# lockdown - Wednesday 13 April, 2022
# China
# China
About 6.6 million people can go outdoors, but some must stay in their own neighbourhoods in the Chinese city.
# Partygate
# Partygate
Boris Johnson was fined over attending a gathering to mark his 56th birthday at No 10, at which he was ‘ambushed’ with a cake.
# lockdown - Saturday 9 April, 2022
# Shanghai
# Shanghai
Large swathes of the city, with a population of 26 million, have been under lockdown since March 28.
# lockdown - Thursday 7 April, 2022
# China
# China
Strict anti-coronavirus controls are confining most of its 25 million people to their homes.
# lockdown - Tuesday 29 March, 2022
# Partygate
# Partygate
The Metropolitan Police said investigators will refer the 20 fixed penalty notices to the ACRO Criminal Records Office.
# lockdown - Monday 28 March, 2022
# Lockdown
# Lockdown
Authorities are imposing a two-phase lockdown of the city of about 25 million people to carry out mass testing.
# lockdown - Tuesday 15 March, 2022
# Lockdown
# Lockdown
China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, more than double the previous day’s tally.
# lockdown - Monday 7 February, 2022
# Lockdown
# Lockdown
Australia’s ports and airports shut to tourists in March 2020.
# lockdown - Thursday 20 January, 2022
# Partygate
# Partygate
David Davis warned Tories the party faces “dying a death of 1,000 cuts” if MPs do not swiftly oust the prime minister.
# lockdown - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# Covid Party
# Covid Party
The Telegraph is among the papers to report that Johnson’s premiership is in jeopardy over a series of No 10 lockdown parties.
# lockdown - Wednesday 5 January, 2022
# Lack Of Support
Substance abuse support groups were classed as non-essential services for five months from March 2020, leaving people without a lifeline. A survey of 157 drug and alcohol support services found that 84% of the support groups saw an increase in drug use among their clients. “The ball was dropped by the government and people were left to kill themselves slowly for the first year of the pandemic," said one support worker.
# lockdown - Thursday 30 December, 2021
# Xian
# Xian
The city of Xi’an with a population of 13 million people has been put into lockdown after a surge of cases.
# lockdown - Saturday 18 December, 2021
# Covid Christmas
# Covid Christmas
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the measures are intended to try to stop a surge of the Omicron coronavirus variant.
# lockdown - Tuesday 23 November, 2021
# Austria
# Austria
The country has entered a strict lockdown to combat soaring coronavirus cases.
# lockdown - Monday 22 November, 2021
# Restrictions
# Restrictions
He said measures needed to combat the virus now were different to those required earlier in the pandemic.
# lockdown - Friday 19 November, 2021
# Austria
The lockdown will start from Monday and will be evaluated after 10 days. It's planned that Covid-19 vaccinations will be mandatory from 1 February next year. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg blamed the unvaccinated for an “attack on the health system”.
# lockdown - Monday 15 November, 2021
# Lockdown
# Lockdown
About 65% of Austria’s almost nine million people are vaccinated.
# lockdown - Friday 12 November, 2021
# Austria
# Austria
Only around 65% of the population is fully vaccinated in Austria.
# lockdown - Tuesday 2 November, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
The new measures come in this weekend.
# New Zealand
# New Zealand
Minister Chris Hipkins said that the new cases were separate from other active cases in the region and as a result, it’s “unclear at this point how they could have picked up the virus”.
# lockdown - Friday 29 October, 2021
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes says that the level of suffering created by a lack of social interaction is just beginning to emerge.
# lockdown - Monday 4 October, 2021
# New Zealand
# New Zealand
Jacinda Ardern said that a Delta outbreak had been a “game changer” and that a new approach was needed.
# lockdown - Sunday 3 October, 2021
# Covid19
# Covid19
The national flag carrier Air New Zealand also announced it was introducing a “no jab, no fly” policy.
# lockdown - Monday 13 September, 2021
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
He is to due to set out his plan to get England through coronavirus over the autumn and winter.
# lockdown - Saturday 4 September, 2021
# Auckland
# Auckland
The woman is the 27th person to die with Covid-19 in New Zealand and the first recorded since 16 February.
# lockdown - Friday 27 August, 2021
# Auckland
# Auckland
Jacinda Ardern said there were signs the outbreak would soon peak if stay-at-home orders remained in place.
# lockdown - Wednesday 18 August, 2021
# Jacinda Ardern
# Jacinda Ardern
Nationwide stay-at-home orders were issued yesterday when just one case had been identified.
# lockdown - Friday 6 August, 2021
# Australia
# Australia
New South Wales premier said the state today hit a new peak with 291 cases detected.
# lockdown - Monday 2 August, 2021
# Australia
# Australia
Meanwhile, stay-at-home orders were extended in Brisbane.
# lockdown - Wednesday 28 July, 2021
# New South Wales
# New South Wales
The lockdown of Australia’s largest city will last at least until 28 August.
# lockdown - Thursday 22 July, 2021
# Vaccines
# Vaccines
The vaccination rate is currently languishing around 11%.
# lockdown - Wednesday 14 July, 2021
# Australia
# Australia
In the past 24 hours, 97 new cases were recorded, more than the 89 reported the previous day.
# lockdown - Tuesday 13 July, 2021
# Lockdown
# Lockdown
Australia’s latest Covid-19 outbreak began in mid-June and has since grown to 767 cases.
# lockdown - Wednesday 7 July, 2021
# Australia
# Australia
The lockdown is now expected to end on Friday 16 July.
# lockdown - Thursday 1 July, 2021
# Restaurants
# Restaurants
Rachel Keane of Póg Cafe Group says people in the industry are tired and fed up of the lack of clear communication from Government.
# lockdown - Wednesday 30 June, 2021
# Australia
# Australia
About 5% of Australians are reported to be fully vaccinated.
# lockdown - Tuesday 29 June, 2021
# Australia
# Australia
Australia is now battling flare-ups of the highly contagious Delta variant.
