The UK’s latest surge in coronavirus infections gathered pace Thursday with new confirmed cases rising above 10,000 for the first time in nearly four months as a result of the spread of the more contagious delta variant, AP reported. Government figures showed another 11,007 cases were reported.

British PM Boris Johnson is expected to confirm on Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed as a result of the spread of the delta variant first identified in India, news wires reported. While hosting the Group of Seven summit in southwest England, Johnson conceded over the weekend that he had grown more pessimistic about the government lifting remaining limits on social contact on 21 June after daily cases reported across the UK hit levels not seen since February.

French President Emmanuel Macron offered on Saturday to reset relations with Britain as long as Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood by the Brexit divorce deal he signed with the European Union.

The Group of Seven nations are set to commit to sharing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with the world, British PM Boris Johnson announced on Thursday, news wires reported. Half of them will come from the US and 100 million from the UK.  Johnson’s announcement on the eve of the G7 leaders’ summit in England came hours after the US president Joe Biden committed to donating 500m Covid-19 vaccine doses, AP noted.

UK PM Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden will sign a new Atlantic charter in an attempt to show that both countries leaderships plan to frame a post-Covid order in a way the original 1941 charter prefigured a new world order after the Second world war, British media reported.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the G7 wealthiest countries to facilitate the vaccination against Covid-19 worldwide by 2022, Reuters reported. Johnson urged for a formal commitment on behalf of G7. UK will host the G7 summit next week that follows the meeting of the finance ministers of the world’s most advanced countries.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have set a wedding date for next year after delaying plans due to the pandemic, The Sun tabloid reported Monday, cited by AFP.

Britain deployed public health officials, supported by the army, to distribute coronavirus tests door-to-door in two northern England towns on Saturday in an effort to contain a fast-spreading variant that threatens plans to lift all lockdown restrictions next month, AP reported. Cases of a strain first identified in India have more than doubled in a week, defying a sharp nationwide downward trend in infections won by months of restrictions and a rapid vaccination campaign.

The group of world richest countries will have to spend some 10 trillion dollars to facilitate a green investment driven recovery, Reuters reported quoting a report provided to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The recovery is seen passing through energy transformation to slow climate change. US President Joe Biden is expected to join other Group of Seven leaders at a G7 summit chaired by Johnson in Cornwall, southern England, on 11-13 June.

Scotland’s leader Nicola Sturgeon told British PM Boris Johnson on Sunday that a second Scottish independence referendum is “a matter of when, not if,” after her party won its fourth straight parliamentary election, AP reported. Johnson has invited the leaders of the UK’s devolved nations for crisis talks on the union after the regional election results rolled in, saying the UK was “best served when we work together” and that the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should cooperate on plans to recover from the pandemic.