Enhanced monitoring will be put in place for all direct flights from Wuhan, the area of China at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, landing in the UK according to the Department of Health and Social Care.

A major report has called for collaboration between leaders, businesses and policymakers if threats to the climate, environment, public health and technology systems are to be tackled. The WEF’s Global Risks Report points to growing economic and political polarisation as the greatest short-term risk, and one that is leading to an “unsettled unilateral world of great power rivalries”.

Greece is feeling the effects of the migrant crisis with over 3,000 migrants landing on its shores in the first few weeks of 2020. Approximately 75,000 people crossed illegally to EU member Greece from Turkey last year according to a UN refugee agency, an increase of nearly 50% on the previous year.

Over two weeks after the ransomware attack that forced Travelex staff offline to calculate foreign currency exchanges, the company has said that some systems are back up and running.
The firm has released a number of short statements since cyber criminals held the firm to ransom on 31st December 2019, causing chaos for New Year holidaymakers and business travellers seeking online currency services.

A coalition of public and private sector organisations has launched an initiative to galvanise investors to tackle the issue of antimicrobial resistance. The Investor Year of Action on AMR is backed by the UN-Supported Principles for Responsible Investment, FAIRR, the Access to Medicine Foundation and the UK Department of Health and Social Care.

A suburban pharmacy in London has become the first UK company to be issued with a fine under the General Data Protection Regulation rules. Doorstep Dispensariee Ltd, a pharmacy based in Edgware, was handed a £275,000 penalty by the Information Commissioners Office for its “cavalier attitude to data protection”.