Schools in England will re-open on March 8, while two families or six people will be able to meet outside from March 29 as the country’s COVID-19 restrictions are eased, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Monday.more
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski on TVN24 said that expert opinions predict that “the apogee will take place more or less at the turn of March and April”. “So we have another month or so of uninterrupted growth ahead,” he admitted.more
The first dose of a COVID vaccine appears to reduce your chances of transmitting the disease by "about two-thirds", the health secretary has told Sky News.more
More than 17.6 million people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, official data showed on Sunday, as daily deaths and coronavirus cases slipped.more
French Health Minister Olivier Véran presented the latest data on Thursday, cautioning that the Covid-19 virus was still spreading at an increasingly rapid pace across the country.
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The United Kingdom will donate surplus of ordered Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries, the country's prime minister Boris Johnson announced. The British government has ordered 457 million vaccines against Covid-19 to date. Even considering that almost all of the formulations developed require two doses, this figure exceeds the needs of the UK almost 3.5 times.more
Variant B.1.1.7, discovered for the first time in Great Britain. coronavirus has been detected in 74 countries so far, and the so-called South African in 37 countries - according to data collected in the global GISAID database. The former is spreading rapidly and is already the dominant variant in several countries.more
Poland is seeing the beginning of a third wave of coronavirus infections, a health ministry spokesman said on Friday, as the country posted a large week-on-week increase in daily cases.more
Midwives in England have been told to stop using terms including “breastfeeding” and “breastmilk” when working with transgender patients as part of a new trans-friendly policy at a National Health Service trust.more
The total number of applications for nursing courses has risen by almost a third (32 per cent) to reach 60,130, with increases seen in each age group.more
Lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 1 April, the Stormont Executive has agreed. But children in primary 1 to primary 3 (aged four to seven) will go back to school in Northern Ireland on 8 March.more
The coronavirus pandemic will not be brought under control before the summer of 2022 - said epidemiologist Prof. Didier Pittet. The scientist also warned about new variants of the virus, which will most likely require new vaccines to fight.more
A laboratory in Helsinki has detected a new variant of the coronavirus, Finnish medical authorities have reported. The pathogen has features of previously detected British and South African variants, but its "evolutionary lineage is different".more
The lockdown in England, in force since the beginning of January, has led to a drop in the number of coronavirus infections by two-thirds, and in London by up to 80%. - according to the Imperial College London estimates presented today.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that when making a decision to gradually lift the lockdown, he would be guided by data, not set dates. He also suggested that the catering sector would be one of the last to resume operations.more
Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 "human challenge" study, which will take place in the UK.more
South Africa is poised to achieve a milestone in the worldwide response to the coronavirus pandemic when it becomes the first country to administer a Covid-19 vaccine created by the pharma giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) this week.more
