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Necker Island

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Locations Caribbean Sea
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British Overseas Territory British Virgin Islands
ISO codeVG
Island groups Lesser Antilles
United States Virgin Islands
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About Necker Island


Necker Island is a 30-hectare island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda. The island's land is entirely owned by Sir Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, and is part of the Virgin Limited Edition portfolio of luxury properties.

Coronavirus: evening update as more than 140,000 companies, apply for vacation scheme

Apr 20,2020 2:58 pm

Here are five things You need to know about the Corona Virus outbreak on this Monday evening. We have another update on Tuesday morning.

1. More Than 140,000 companies, job retention assistance,

German Chancellor Rishi Sunak , of what was said by The Daily briefing from Downing Street,, More Than 140,000 companies had applied apply for the exemption from the as of 16:00 BST on Monday. The grants that You receive, help pay the wages of More Than A Million people that "would have been in danger of losing their jobs," he added. It Comes as The Number of deaths in UK hospitals achieved 16,509, an increase of 449 on Sunday, a total of.

2. PM fears the second summit, if lockdown is relaxed to You soon,

, that, if the UK is lockdown is relaxed, soon it could lead to a second peak of coronavirus. In the meantime, and whether or not the technology can be infected to live up to his promise of warning the user when someone they were recently in the vicinity.

3. Minute of silence for NHS frontline staff who have died, with coronavirus

in memory of the NHS workers who have died of the coronavirus. So Far , 49 deaths have been verified for NHS staff during the pandemic, including. Meanwhile, The Duke of Edinburgh has issued a rare public opinion, to thank key employees

4. Branson offers the Caribbean in order to save the island, Virgin Atlantic

Sir Richard Branson has offered to help his luxury Caribbean Island Resort as a security to, a UK government rescue package for its struggling airline Virgin Atlantic . that the airline was not the survival in doubt as to whether it will receive support. He Said he asked not for alms, but a loan, believed to be £500m, and that his Necker Island home, and loaned could.

5. Lockdown-exercisers "transform" beach with pebble stacks

dozens of piles of stones had been built to do on a beach of people, your daily exercise while the coronavirus lockdown. according to the Press Association photographer Owen Humphreys, who is images has risen, like The Towers .

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