Lifestyle & Wellbeing
Butterfly Ball set to return to Monaco under new creative direction
The Butterfly Ball will return to Monaco this October for its 10th anniversary edition, with organiser Caudwell Children announcing that renowned event designer Billy Folchetti will serve as guest creative director.
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Monaco eases some of last Covid restrictions
Mandatory restaurant reservations and a limit on music levels are among the restrictions that have been dropped by the Monaco government from Saturday. Masks indoors, however, remain.
Will 2022 be the year of Covid reinfections?
Prince Albert is among 5.3% of Monaco’s population to contract Covid twice, according to a new report by IMSEE that also shows 26.6% of residents have tested positive since the pandemic began.
Monaco funding effective HIV treatments for children
The government of Monaco has thrown its support behind the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, a programme that makes available proper treatment to children living with HIV.
Kinder withdraws chocolates due to salmonella risk
Some Kinder chocolate eggs have been recalled over links to Salmonella, just two weeks out from Easter, with up to 15 cases already identified in France and 63 in the UK.
2021 in numbers: births, deaths and marriages
In a year significantly marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, Monaco saw its lowest birth rate among nationals since 1985, while the number of Monegasques who died reached an all-time high.
Omicron BA.2 variant behind Covid resurgence
The highly transmissible subvariant of Omicron, known as BA.2, is now the dominant Covid strain, sending the number of cases surging once again in Monaco and the world.
