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Austria's government announced Saturday a second mass shutdown and a curfew starting next week until the end of November, in an attempt to halt rocketing coronavirus infection numbers.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a second national lockdown for England to prevent a "medical and moral disaster" for the NHS.more

The UK has now recorded more than one million coronavirus cases, according to government data. The grim milestone was passed after an additional 21,915 lab-confirmed cases were reported as of 9am on Saturday, bringing the UK's total to 1,011,660.more

Face masks and limits on numbers are important, but good ventilation technology is the most essential ingredient of all in reducing the risk of the coronavirus spreading at public events indoors, according to a German study.more

Polonus, the national bus carrier, will suspend some connections from November 2 due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the company said in a statement on Friday.more

England will go into a second national lockdown for a month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce. Non-essential shops and hospitality will have to close, sources told the BBC. But unlike the restriction in the spring, schools and colleges are to be allowed to stay open.more

Along with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the authorities of European countries introduced numerous restrictions. One of them is limiting the sale and consumption of alcohol. In Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland, all pubs have closed. In Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium, we won't buy alcohol after 8 p.m.more

NHS workers and their relatives account for one in six Covid-19 patients of working age who are hospitalised, a study has found. more

Laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in 21,000 897 new people, the balance of cases detected since the beginning of the pandemic increased to 362,731 - the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday. more

In Ireland, for the first time since August, the average weekly number of coronavirus infections detected has dropped, and the R virus reproduction rate is around 1, meaning the epidemic has stopped spreading, medical authorities said yesterday.more

Scientists have warned the Government that every hospital bed in England will be full by December 17 unless further coronavirus restrictions are imposed.more

Belgium, where the number of people infected with the coronavirus continues to rise, has opted for "stricter isolation" for six weeks as a "last resort" to slow down the pandemic, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced yesterday.more

House prices rose at their fastest rate for five years in October as buyers raced to beat next year's stamp duty deadline, the Nationwide has said. more

Unless there is a “seismic shift” in how countries collectively deal with infectious diseases, future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, cause greater damage to the global economy and kill more people than COVID-19, international experts warned in a UN-backed report published on Thursday. more

104-year-old Danish Margrethe Hansen, living in a retirement home, wanted to visit her family, but was unable to make the 175-kilometer car trip because she had problems sitting for long periods. Instead, it rented a helicopter, reported the Danish media.more

The United Kingdom reported on Friday 24,405 new cases of COVID-19 and a further 274 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to government data.more

Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have recovered from COVID-19, but he understand the virus is no joke. Ibrahimovic released a video Thursday urging others to mask up and practice social distancing so they can avoid the virus.more

This Saturday, Sunday, November 1, and on Monday, the cemeteries will be closed, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced today. We do not want to make a lot of people gather in cemeteries and in public transport - he emphasized.more

Tests on more than 365,000 people in England have shown that the antibody response to the virus that causes COVID-19 wanes over time.more

The pandemic situation in Italy is "dramatic" in some respects, "the coronavirus has regained its strength," said government sanitary crisis commissioner Domenico Arcuri yesterday. He called on the Italians to only move when necessary.more

Pizza Express will cut 1,300 more jobs across its 370 UK restaurants after sales dipped amid more coronavirus cases and restrictions. more

Up to 10% of England’s population could be tested for coronavirus every week after government officials asked local health chiefs to deploy 30-minute saliva kits in an acceleration of Boris Johnson’s controversial “Operation Moonshot” mass screening plan.more

The Spanish parliament on Thursday approved the extension for six months of a state of emergency declared to fight a surge in coronavirus infections.more

Nicola Sturgeon today admitted she cannot rule out imposing nationwide coronavirus restrictions on Scotland 'in the next few weeks' as she unveiled her new five-tier plan for local lockdowns. more

The 53-country region that makes up Europe under the umbrella of the World Health Organization (WHO) said it reached a record of confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1.5 million new infections last week, the organization's European director said Thursday.more