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French tourists weary of their strict national lockdown are flocking over the border to Madrid, where bars and restaurants are open and people can stay outdoors until 10pm, even as COVID-19 batters Europe in a virulent third wave.more

Just one dose of a Covid vaccine can reduce a patient’s risk of infection by 65%, new data has revealed. The research, which will be officially published this week, showed that the Pfizer vaccine can start working in as little as two weeks, The Sun reports.more

Boris Johnson has warned the public against pinning their hopes on a summer holiday, even in the UK, until the government announces its plans for lifting lockdown.more

Leaders of Germany's 16 states and the federal government have agreed to extend shutdown measures until at least March 7. However, schools and hairdressers can open before that.more

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that a new round of Covid-19 immunization may be needed in the fall with new variants of the coronavirus.more

British people should not book a holiday domestically or abroad until more is known about the success of Britain's COVID-19 vaccination programme, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Wednesday.more

The British mutation now accounts for about 39 percent. coronavirus infections in the Paris region. "The situation is worrying," said Dr. Gilles Pialoux, infectious disease specialist. He added that he did not see any possibility of avoiding another lockdown.more

Travel company Tui has said it expects to run 80% of its normal capacity for this summer, with 2.8 million customers already booked for its holidays.more

In Scotland, the obligation to undergo a 10-day quarantine in a hotel will apply to all arrivals from abroad, not only from "red list" countries, as in England, announced the Scottish Transport Minister Michael Matheson yesterday.more

It is not yet clear whether we need new vaccines against Covid-19 in connection with the new virus variants, but scientists are already working on them to make preparations ready when needed, said Prof. Andy Pollard from the University of Oxford.more

A man who commissioned a bust of Captain Sir Tom Moore is campaigning to have a statue made for the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.more

British Successor Prince Charles and his wife, Princess Camilla, received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, their office at Clarence House said.more

Peter Daszak, UK member of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, called for US intelligence on the virus to be skeptical. Washington, he suggested, may be politically motivated.more

A maximum 10-year jail term for lying about recent travel history has been defended by the government. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the British public "would expect pretty strong action" and the maximum sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime.more

The state will participate in the rescue of LOT Polish Airlines, which were in a difficult financial situation due to the pandemic - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced today.more

Labeling viral variants by their geographic origin is incorrect. Just as the “China virus” should be called SARS-CoV-2 or the novel coronavirus, so too should new variants be described by their proper nomenclature: B.1.1.7, not “U.K. variant” and P.1, not the “Brazilian variant.”more

Europe's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has survived Covid-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday tomorrow, her caregivers said.more

Facebook is to start helping people find out where and when they can get vaccinated against coronavirus.more

Every third Pole misses meetings with family and friends - according to a survey by Santander Consumer Bank. The inability to play sports bothers 22 percent of respondents.more

UK and Irish residents returning from 33 "red list" countries will have to pay £1,750 to quarantine in hotels for 10 days, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told MPs.more

An international team of scientists led by the World Health Organization said Tuesday that the coronavirus “most likely” originated in animals before spreading to humans and dismissed a theory that the disease had been leaked by a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.more

The coronavirus variant first identified in the UK is deadlier than earlier variants, a new study confirms. Researchers tracked roughly one million individuals tested for COVID-19 from November to January in community settings, including about 3,000 who ultimately died from it. more

The NHS Covid-19 app has told 1.7 million people in England and Wales to self-isolate to date.more

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and now a group of developers have created AI software that can tell whether you are likely to die from Covid-19 using health data.more

All travellers entering the UK will be required to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining in an attempt to prevent variants entering the country.more