The British government said yesterday that its plan to offer at least the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to the entire adult population of the country by the end of July remains valid, despite falling vaccinations and reports of reduced supplies.more
The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) has said it has received 16 reports of blood clots occurring following vaccination with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.more
The head of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) vaccine evaluation team, Marco Cavaleri, said that "it is now becoming increasingly difficult to argue that there is no causal link between AstraZeneki (against Covid-19) and very rare unusual cases of blood clots."more
It would be "remiss" of the government not to consider Covid certification as a way of fully reopening the economy, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says.
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In Poland, 6,665,384 vaccinations have been performed so far, including 2,074,033 with the second dose, according to the latest government report. A total of 8,078,060 doses of vaccines were delivered to Poland.more
The USA could be on the brink of a “disturbing surge” in COVID cases as worshippers pack out churches and some 1.6 million people fly over the Easter weekend, Dr Anthony Fauci has warned.more
Italy is divided into red and orange zones under the colour-coded system of covid-19 restrictions on 6 April, after the nationwide Easter red zone lockdown.more
A boy born last week on the Ibiza island has become the first newborn in Spain with COVID-19 antibodies, after his mother received the vaccine in the third trimester of her pregnancy.more
We recommend caution with serological tests from discount stores. They can give you a false sense of security. They do not detect fresh infection and only inform about whether we have had contact with the coronavirus, it is not necessarily SARS-CoV-2 - warned the president of the National Council of Laboratory Diagnosticians in Poland.more
Everyone in England is to be given access to two rapid coronavirus tests a week from Friday, under an extension of the government's testing programme.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to set out plans to develop a "Covid status certification" scheme to enable the safe return of mass gatherings and indoor events as lockdown restrictions ease in England.more
Vaccinations against Covid-19 in Russia slowed down in March due to declining vaccine supplies to many regions. Where there is no lack of it, another problem can be seen: low motivation to vaccinate and a sense of not being threatened - assesses the independent analyst Aleksandr Dragan.more
People who have been fully vaccinated might soon be able to regain personal freedoms and return to a more ordinary life, Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn has said.more
Pope Francis urged Catholics to remain hopeful in his Easter Sunday address, calling vaccines an "essential tool" in ending the pandemic and urging their swift rollout to the world's poorest countries.more
On Sunday of the Lord's Resurrection, most of the faithful in Europe can go to the churches for mass. Due to the pandemic, there are restrictions and limits. In Italy, you can only go to the nearest temple. In Germany, liturgies are not accompanied by singing. In Spain, the processions were canceled. In Slovakia, only individual prayer is possible.more
Britain reported 10 deaths from COVID-19 within 28 days of a positive test on Saturday, the lowest daily figure since early September, as its vaccine rollout reached another milestone.more
During the coronavirus epidemic in France, more scammers, self-proclaimed "gurus", who promised protection against serious diseases or cure Covid-19 via the Internet.more
In Poland, over 6.4 million vaccinations were performed - including about 4.4 million with the first dose and over 2 million - with the second dose - according to the data of the Ministry of Health. So far, around 8 million vaccines have been delivered to Poland.more
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
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