Dutch tulip farmers are cutting flowers early causing a huge financial loss because so many tourists are turning up in defiance of the quarantine in order to take photographs of the huge fields covered in blooms. Local police said they had tried putting up barriers, roadblocks manned by police officers…
A dozen police officers have been quarantined after removing the body of a suspected suicide from a tree who was later found to have been infected with the coronavirus. The officers had been called to the scene after a report that the body of an unidentified man in his mid-20s…
A British former nurse and her at-risk husband said they were fortunate to have been treated for COVID-19 infections in Vietnam as they doubted they would have survived if they were in the UK when they caught the disease. The British man, named in reports as John Garth, 74, and…
A Belgian nurse struggling to save lives in an intensive care unit said she had reached her "breaking point" after seeing people that broke quarantine to enjoy the Easter weekend, putting potentially even more strain on the struggling health service. Nurse Elke Loots said she and her colleagues have to…
A bored-at-home Japanese actress has been sharing fetching images of dismantled fruit segments during her COVID-19 lockdown. Actress and pop star You Kikkawa, 27, from the central Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki, has been sharing the images for her online followers to show how she is keeping active during lockdown. In…
