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Some wealthy Spaniards go to the United Arab Emirates to vaccinate there against Covid-19, even though officially foreign tourists were allowed to do so in the UAE until January 12, and currently, according to the country's embassy in Madrid, vaccines are currently only available to citizens and residents - the Spanish daily "ABC" reports.more

Air temperature and humidity play a key role in determining when and where a second wave of the pandemic will strike, new research shows. more

The airport in Wrocław carries out quick anti-agent tests for passengers returning to Poland from non Schengen area in front of border control posts, i.e. before crossing the state border. A negative test result allows you to be released from a 10-day quarantine. The validity of these studies is questioned by the Ministry of Health.more

The boss of Test and Trace has told MPs around 20,000 people a day are not self-isolating when they should be. more

This is the moment a teenage Covid-sceptic accosted England’s chief medical officer and started calling him a liar.more

People in Wales who are told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 phone app can now apply for a £500 payment, the Welsh Government has announced. more

Denmark's government said Wednesday it is joining forces with businesses to develop a digital passport that would show whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, allowing them to travel and help ease restrictions on public life.more

In times of a pandemic, Poles postpone decisions on marriages and parenthood - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports. As a result Poland recorded a decrease in the number of births in 2020.more

A team of investigators from the World Health Organization has visited a virus research laboratory in Wuhan seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.more

Over 65s will be invited to receive their Covid vaccine next week amid claims every adult in the UK could be offered the jab by May, it was reported.more

According to the data of the Polish Fitness Federation, half of the industry has opened; the rest are waiting for employees or are afraid of losing public support - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

UK-based drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and Germany’s CureVac say they plan to collaborate on a new generation of vaccines targeting emerging variants of Covid-19.more

The Netherlands will extend most of its measures against Covid-19 until 2 March, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Tuesday.more

As the pandemic fuels a wave of fake news, experts are concerned that the UK is becoming a hot-house for radical conspiracy theories like QAnon. more

The Covid-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is 76 percent effective against the virus 12 weeks after it is given as a single dose, scientists from the university said on Tuesday.more

The coronavirus pandemic is the most important event of 2020, both in Poland and in the world - according to the CBOS study "2020 marked by a pandemic".more

"The vaccination campaign has an unforgivable delay. It is impossible to achieve herd immunity by the end of the year," said Italian expert Fabio Ciciliano of the science and technology committee advising the government in Rome on the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.more

Captain Tom Moore, a 100-year-old British veteran who raised nearly £ 33 million for public health last spring, died at the hospital from Covid-19, his family said. For health reasons, the man could not be vaccinated against the coronavirus.more

The British variant of the coronavirus appears to mutate even more, mimicking the South African and Brazilian variants, potentially making it more resistant to vaccines, British researchers said.more

AstraZeneca vaccines against the coronavirus can also be administered to people over 55 who are in good health, explained the scientific committee of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa). She noted that she recommends the preparation mainly to people aged 18-55.more

People in areas where community transmission of the South African coronavirus variant has been found should "think again" before they leave the house for reasons even within the rules, a minister has said.more

The youngest students will return to school in Denmark, and shops and restaurants will open again in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, the countries' authorities announced. Coronavirus infections are falling in both countries.more

The first results of the third phase of clinical trials of the Janssen vaccine developed in cooperation with Johnson & Johnson are very promising - said Dr. Piotr Rzymski from the Medical University of Poznań. He added that everything indicates that it will be completely sufficient to administer only one dose of the preparation.more

The team of prof. Andrzej Mackiewicz from Poznań is working on a vaccine against SARS-CoV2, which would provide immunity to healthy people, and replace the therapy for infected people. "Our vaccine works similarly to the virus itself in order to destroy it in the body" - explained the scientist.more

B117 variant first identified in the UK is now accounts for 70 per cent of samples tested in Ireland, according to officials.more