Zdrowie

Multiple regions in Italy will be locked down from Monday, the Italian Ministry of Health announced on Friday. The most populated regions including Lombardy and Lazio, where Rome is located, will be classified as "red zones" which is Italy's maximum level of coronavirus restrictions.more

There is no indication that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is linked to an increased risk of blood clots, the EU's medicines regulator says.more

People in England who are homeless or sleeping rough will be prioritised for Covid vaccines, alongside those aged 16 to 65 with underlying conditions that put them at increased risk.more

Germany awarded IBM and Ubirch the contract to create the COVID-19 digital vaccination passport.more

Denmark, Iceland and Norway have stopped administering the shot while Italy has banned the use of a batch of AstraZeneca doses as a precaution after an unconfirmed number of people developed blood clots.more

In 2020, the inhabitants of the Netherlands gained a total of 5 million kilograms. Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the extra kilos "coronacilograms".more

Thousands of people in a ‘deprived’ area of Birmingham are set to receive a letter from a Covid taskforce urging them to get the lifesaving jab.more

In the coming days, specific decisions by Italy are expected to impose stricter restrictions on the Easter season. more

The country's most important temple, Anglican Westminster Abbey, joined the atypical sites in Britain where vaccination against Covid-19 is taking place.more

Rafael Nadal will not compete at next week’s ATP 500 event in Dubai as he has not recovered fully from a back issue sustained ahead of the Australian Open, the world No 2 said on Thursday.more

The United Kingdom has not blocked the export of a single vaccine against Covid-19, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday denying the claims of the President of the European Council Charles Michel.more

There is deep dissatisfaction with the vaccine rollout in some parts of the European Union, according to a Euronews survey. Three-quarters of respondents in France (75%) and Germany (77%) and more than two-thirds in Italy (68%) were unhappy. That contrasts sharply with the UK, where 85% of people who answered the survey expressed satisfaction.more

The impact of NHS Test and Trace is still unclear - despite the UK government setting aside £37bn for it over two years, MPs are warning.more

A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30% and 100% more deadly than previous strains, researchers said on Wednesday. more

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab writes to Charles Michel to say UK has 'not blocked the export of a single COVID-19 vaccine.'more

55 percent Poles fully trust vaccinations, two years ago their number was only 37 percent. But to be immune to COVID-19, at least 70-80 percent citizens should be vaccinated - reported "Gazeta Wyborcza", citing the EU report.more

Unlocking too quickly would lead to a substantial surge in Covid infections, the UK's chief medical adviser says. Prof Chris Whitty told MPs that would be dangerous and risk lives among the many vulnerable people not yet protected by the vaccine.more

The network of emergency Nightingale hospitals set up to cope with a surge of Covid-19 cases is to close from April, the NHS has said. Established last spring amid fears that the NHS might be overwhelmed, the temporary hospitals in England were largely not needed.more

The Dutch government is working on a proof of non-contagiousness to give more freedom to people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, recently recovered from an infection and therefore are immune, or recently tested negative for the virus. more

Boris Johnson has hailed the return of schools across England as a "big" and "emotional" day - but warned it will impact on the spread of coronavirus and there is no guarantee the country will reopen on the target dates set out.more

Boris Johnson has defended his controversial pay offer to ‘heroic’ NHS staff, suggesting his government has given “as much as we can”.more

Four online publications linked to Russian intelligence agencies have been spreading false or misleading information about coronavirus vaccines, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an official at the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center.more

The UK has reported the lowest daily death toll from coronavirus in almost five months. Yesterday, a total of 82 people died on Covid-19, and a total of 124,501 people have died as a result of this pandemic since the beginning of the pandemic.more

A senior European Medicines Agency (EMA) official urged European Union members on Sunday (7 March) to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness.more

Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on Sunday.more