25 January 2021

Monday 25 January

2021-01-25

Events

 * Chelsea FC sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge. Lampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won just once in their past five league matches. The announcement comes a day after Chelsea won 3-1 against Luton Town in the FA Cup 4th round.
 * PM Boris Johnson announced he could not give a guarantee that schools would reopen before Easter. he also said he was looking at the possibility of toughening the country’s border controls because of the risk of “vaccine-busting” new variants of coronavirus.
 * France issues a decree banning certain homemade masks being worn in public saying they do not offer sufficient protection from new more contagious Covid-19 variants.
 * From today, Austrians over 14 are required to wear medical-grade FFP2 masks on public transport, in shops and businesses, and in pharmacies, hospitals and medical practices.