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The lowest number of coronavirus infections since mid-September - 3,402 - has been detected in the past 24 hours in Great Britain, and the total number of infections in the last 7 days is 26.6%. lower than in the previous seven, the British government said yesterday.more

More than 70 British MPs - including over 40 from the ruling Conservative Party - declared that they would jointly campaign against the use of the so-called vaccine passports in everyday life in the country.more

Remote work and the wrong workstation at the computer as well as limited physical activity caused backache to worsen in many people during the pandemic, experts alert The data of the Polish Social Insurance Institution show that in 2020 there were more sick leaves for this reason than a year earlier.more

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare Regulators (MHRA) said its experts had confirmed a total of 30 cases of rare blood clots in people vaccinated with the British-Swedish AstraZeneca.more

In the community for people recovering from drug addiction near Rimini, Italy, among 450 confirmed infections with coronavirus, there was not a single serious case. Scientists who will study this phenomenon have become interested in this.more

Before Christmas, there are more and more people at Polish diagnostic points for coronavirus detection tests. Poles are testing themselves before going abroad and meeting with their family, "Gazeta Wyborcza" reports on Friday.more

The British government plans to introduce a "traffic light system" on international travel, under which countries will be marked red, yellow and green depending on the epidemic situation there and the level of vaccination, the Times and The Sun reported today.more

Unknown perpetrators have been preaching conspiracy theories over the coronavirus pandemic on a frequency belonging to the WDR regional radio in the Muensterland region in northwest Germany for several weeks. Authorities suspect that the message is generated by a pirate transmitter.more

Ireland extended the obligation for visitors from another 26 countries and territories to undergo a 12-day paid quarantine in designated hotels yesterday evening. Despite the suggestions of the country's chief physician, the government has not added any EU or US country to the list.more

The use of so-called vaccine passports to decide whether people can enter pubs would go against the "British instinct", Sir Keir Starmer has said.more

Nearly half of Italians (47 percent) are willing to pay to vaccinate against Covid-19, according to a recent poll. Some say they would pay € 5,000 or more.more

Spain holidays are undeniably popular with hordes of tourists but outrage was sparked yesterday when it was revealed a new local law means it is mandatory to wear a face mask even when in outdoor spaces. However, beachgoers on the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands are exempt.more

The coronavirus pandemic significantly strengthened the migration trend started after the Brexit referendum, and as a result, more European Union citizens left the UK in 2020 than came to it - the "Financial Times" reports today.more

The coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 -which was first identified in the UK - has been found in nearly nine in 10 of all new Covid-19 infections in Germany, according to a report from the country’s public health authority the Robert Koch Institute.more

On the eve of the Easter holidays, World Health Organization (WHO) Europe warned Europeans on Wednesday against making "individual" travel plans that could "affect more people than those close by" and could "also impact communities."more

Vaccination of children against Covid-19 may start from the summer holidays; from July there is a chance for 16- and 17-year-olds to join the schedule - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

The French stadium that hosted World Cup finals in soccer and rugby is taking on a new role in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: it is becoming a vaccination centre.more

Less than one in five people order a test if suffering from Covid-19 symptoms, while the majority of people don’t self-isolate, a new study has found.more

Most Britons support the idea of vaccine passports, according to a new poll - with 62% saying they would be fine with using one to get into a pub or restaurant.more

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to push back a third wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals.more

Yesterday was the last day of the recommendation for nearly 4 million people in England and Wales who, due to risk factors, are extremely vulnerable to coronavirus infection to stay completely at home.more

The coronavirus vaccine produced by the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company is now called Vaxzevria, the Swedish medicine agency Läkemedelsverket announced based on data from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).more

The hastily-agreed Transport for London bailout extension agreed this month will unlikely be the last cash injection for TfL from government coffers, if analysts’ passenger number predictions are correct.more

The Tokyo Summer Olympics has survived being postponed, a mountain of scandal and bad publicity. Now comes the real challenge: pulling off the world’s biggest sporting event safely in the middle of a pandemic.more

The Irish government has announced some easing to strict lockdown restrictions from mid-April, including allowing two fully vaccinated people to meet indoors.more