South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has ordered a "circuit breaker" lockdown for six days to stop the spread of a new and virulent strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Downer said in the United Kingdom, the government and public—prior to Freedom Day—had accepted lockdowns and restrictions as part-and-parcel of handling the virus.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has declared a state of emergency over concerns that the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 may spread abroad. In other news, many countries are instituting new forms of social controls to prepare for the virus spread, including in Israel, where the government will begin using counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology to […]

LONDON—The United Kingdom is taking another small step out of lockdown as it looks nervously at a new virus surge inundating its European neighbors.

But if we overreacted, including cancelling other surgeries on the theory that only COVID mattered, they go into the “lockdown” column.

This mentality also helped him to get through lockdowns over the past year. “You get taught that kind of mentality to not give up, just keep going forward,” he told NTD. Murtaza Muhammed, 16, speaks to NTD in London on May 2, 2021.

London Court during lockdown restrictions in Perth, Australia on Jun. 29, 2021.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said the decision to impose the lockdown was made after NSW Health contacted the three town mayors.

South Carolina National Guard among others denied the claims about a nationwide lockdown that were circulating on the internet.

“I followed the authorities’ advice not to stock up on food at the beginning of the lockdown … now, my housing compound won’t let me out, and there is no delivery service.”

As some commentators noted during Victoria’s fourth lockdown, the prime minister has become a “lockdown enabler.”

However, her community has been in lockdown since Dec. 19, and she hadn't had dialysis for four days, a Chinese state media reported on Dec. 20.

What happens when the next pandemic comes? With little seemingly being done to hold the Chinese regime accountable for its role in at least spreading the coronavirus, the possibility of another outbreak isn’t so far-fetched. Former Lieutenant Governor of New York Betsy McCaughey says reforming the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is at the core […]

The event is at the heart of an investigation being led by senior civil servant Sue Gray which is examining lockdown-breaking parties across Whitehall. The IOPC has been contacted for comment.

But a new report by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is challenging those lockdown assumptions.

Protesters have spilled onto suburban streets in Melbourne's outer southeast to rebel against the city's strict COVID-19 lockdown rules.

Often attended by thousands in defiance of lockdown restrictions, the protests have triggered nightly clashes between demonstrators and police.

Residents line up for nucleic acid tests during a lockdown in Shanghai on April 16, 2022.

Johnson announced a three-tiered system of restrictions on Oct. 12, and repeatedly rejected Labour’s call for an immediate 2-to-3-week-long national lockdown, saying he wanted to avoid the "misery of a national lockdown."

Outdoor sports venues must close, but, unlike the first lockdown, playgrounds will remain open.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the lockdown measures were similar to those put in place during the previous CCP virus peak in the spring.

Researchers at a top U.S. university releasing the results of a new study on lockdowns. What they found might shock you. Clothing companies seem to be ready to bring their manufacturing closer to home.

By late September, Greater Sydney will have been under three months of strict lockdown. NSW Police block off main roads surrounding Broadway in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 21, 2021.

Oceana Grill, a popular seafood restaurant in New Orleans, has achieved a first-of-its-kind victory in its long-running legal battle to receive payouts from insurer Lloyd’s of London for loss of revenues during its COVID-19 shutdown beginning on March 20, 2020. On June 15, a Louisiana state court reversed an earlier decision and ruled in favor […]

A military base in Bethesda, Maryland, was placed on lockdown due to a bomb threat, said the base on Wednesday morning. Hours later, the base lifted its shelter in place order.

She was worried the state would close her school next, since it's on the edge of the lockdown zone. Another local resident, Ivana, supported the lockdown. “Absolutely. I agree. I think all schools should be closed.

Definitely two sides to this lockdown.” Although evidence of death rates has been scarce, the prolonged lockdowns in Sydney and other Australian cities has coincided with an uptick in requests for mental health support.

The lockdown will be reviewed on Saturday morning.

A senior British Cabinet minister had to be escorted by police away from a protest on Tuesday after he was surrounded by a group of anti-lockdown demonstrators in central London.

IPA said there were a few factors that caused small businesses to be disproportionately harmed by lockdowns.