Australia Post is hiring more than 4,000 new staff as locked-down consumers buy online in unprecedented numbers, making it so flat out every day is like the Christmas rush.

Slashed prices mean a family of four could holiday in Portugal for four-nights for as little as £187 per person. But pandemic red tape means that bill could quickly spiral to as much as an extra £3,996.

Saturday’s record of 4,187 deaths takes India’s official death toll from the virus to nearly 240,000, although the true figure is believed to be much higher.

Jason Bonhomme was physically threatened as he landed in the French port of Carteret with his half tonne of Cuttle fish at 4.30pm today.

Another 800 military personnel have been sent to Kent as part of Operation Rose to help Covid test the backlog of 4,000 stranded truckers waiting to cross into France.

On Tuesday, there were 96 COVID deaths across the state and more than 6,000 are in the hospital. At the virus peak, more than 800 were dying every day and 18,000 were in the hospital in New York.

Experts are warning Americans to ‘hunker down’ for a difficult holiday season as they predict that COVID-19 deaths could double within the next ten days.

A nationwide lockdown wouldn't be good for the U.S. economy or stock market, one veteran strategist opines.

Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University Carl Heneghan said mathematically the document should not have been used to justify the new lockdown curbs.