A nurse who cared for Boris Johnson when he was in intensive care with Covid has quit the NHS and criticised the government's handling of the pandemic and nurses' pay.more
Austria will resign from vaccination with AstraZeneca, informed Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein. "We will probably vaccinate with this preparation until the beginning of June, and then the end. We will give up AstraZeneka" - he added in an interview for Puls 24 television.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is currently nothing to determine that due to the emergence of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, plans to lift the restrictions in June must be abandoned.more
Danish parliamentary parties have agreed to open the country almost completely from next Friday. Employees will be able to gradually return to offices, and the requirement to show a coronavirus passport will be withdrawn from June.more
If the interval between the first and second doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is three months, the body produces three times more antibodies than when they are given every three weeks, the daily Corriere della Sera reported.more
The number of attacks on their own lives among minors in the first quarter of 2021, compared to a similar period last year, increased by almost a quarter. This is what the police show, informs "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" today.more
Vaccines against Covid-19 from Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech are effective against Indian variants of the coronavirus, according to preliminary laboratory work of American scientists.more
Boris Johnson has dropped a promise to reveal this month whether social distancing will end, blaming the “new threat” from the Indian variant of Covid-19.
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Sanofi and GSK announced positive results on Monday from a Phase 2 clinical trial of their joint Covid-19 vaccine, saying it generated strong levels of neutralizing antibodies in recipients across all ages studied. The partners said a large international Phase 3 trial will begin in coming weeks.more
In Italy, after the easing of restrictions at the end of April, the curve of coronavirus infections did not increase, the head of the government's advisory committee on the pandemic, Franco Locatelli, said yesterday.more
Three months of curfew have not had any effect on the number of coronavirus-related hospital admissions in the Netherlands but the measure was needed to slow the spread of the virus, the head of the Dutch intensive care association has said.more
The Indian variant "can really spread like wildfire" among those who are unvaccinated, the Health Secretary has warned as he urged caution ahead of tomorrow's reopening.more
Introducing a curfew or a ban on moving between provinces for people who do not want to be vaccinated in Poland - suggests prof. Miłosz Parczewski, one of the prime minister's pandemic advisers.more
The Indian Coronavirus Variant Could Be Up To 50% more contagious than the currently dominant British variant, and could become the dominant one in the future, British scientists believe.more
From Sunday, in Italy, there will be no requirement of a 5-day quarantine for people coming from other European Union countries, the Schengen area, as well as from Great Britain and Israel. The ordinance in this matter was signed on Friday by Health Minister Roberto Speranza.more
18 percent cases of adverse body reactions following vaccination against COVID-19 should be considered serious as they force the patient to go into hospital, according to a study published by the Spanish Medicines Agency (Aemps) in Madrid. However, the institution points out that adverse reactions after receiving the vaccine are very rare.more
Half of Canada's provinces and territories have withdrawn from AstraZeneca. So far, about half of Canadians have been vaccinated at least once with various preparations.more
