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Boris Johnson has pledged that all adults in the UK will be offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July.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. more

Israel is preparing itself to be split in half from next week, with the government creating a new privileged tier in society: the vaccinated.more

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

London’s nightclubs and music venues today warned they may go dark for ever without urgent support to survive the pandemic.more

The Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine is more effective with an interval between doses of more than 6 weeks, according to the analysis of studies to date.more

43 percent Poles believe that the virus that causes COVID-19 was created in a laboratory. 25 percent believes that the pandemic was caused by pharmaceutical companies, according to a Kantar poll. The safety of receiving the coronavirus vaccine is the most questionable.more

Even before the end of March, the vaccine against Covid-19 can be given to people in the UK as young as 40, the Daily Mail reported.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

Some of the party-goers moved from Krupowki to hotels and guesthouses. During the night from Friday to Saturday, policemen in the Tatra poviat recorded 103 interventions, and 84 people were fined, informed Roman Wieczorek, spokesman for the Zakopane police.more

The Portuguese government approved Thursday a program to hire foreign nurses to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.more

Monthly tests have found no traces of coronavirus, including new variants, in air samples and swabs of London's Tube trains, buses and stations. 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

Two women disguised themselves as "grannies" in a failed attempt to get a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Florida health officials said.more

Moisture under the mask may - contrary to appearances - help fight respiratory diseases such as COVID-19. This surprising conclusion was reached by scientists from the operating US National Institutes of Health (NIH).more

Parents will be asked to test their children for coronavirus twice a week under government plans to reopen schools, according to reports.more

A wanted man handed himself in to police rather than spend any more time in lockdown with the people he lives with. He surrendered to officers on Wednesday afternoon in a bid for some “peace and quiet” from his flatmates, Sussex Police said.more

Half of Italy's regions are at risk of tightening restrictions as the pandemic situation worsens, according to the latest epidemic data.more

The Minister of Internal Affairs has announced that crime in 2020 registered the lowest levels in Portugal since record began, with only computer crimes rising.more

Pfizer to begin Covid vaccine clinical trial in pregnant women. The drugmaker aims to enroll 4,000 expectant mothers. 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

In Poland, the level of anxiety caused by the pandemic is gradually declining, according to the Deloitte report about consumer sentiment.more

Summer holidays in Greece could be on the cards for vaccinated travellers, the tourism minister Haris Theoharis has said.more