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Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is "optimistic" people will be able to have summer holidays this year - but it depends on certain things going well.more

The EU on Monday agreed to establish the color “dark red” to its traffic light system, which shows the Covid-19 risk levels across its regions, as an additional measure to discourage all but essential travel within and to its member states.more

An MP today asked police to investigate the distribution of a leaflet designed by Jeremy Corbyn’s brother that compares the Covid-19 vaccine programme with the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.more

Lockdown restrictions have been entirely lifted in the Isle of Man thanks to the "supportive, patriotic" public who have been praised for the way they have followed measures to tackle COVID-19.more

As a result of the pandemic, one-fifth of taxi drivers left the profession - the Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" reports. Of those who remained behind the wheel, every second has problems with paying social security contributions or corporate fees.more

Due to the pandemic, most Spanish women postponed their decision to become a mother. Nearly 74 percent of women under 45 do not consider motherhood a priority in the next 5 years, according to the latest research.more

Door-to-door testing launched as cases found in Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, Walsall, Sefton and three London boroughs.more

Boris Johnson announced a "milestone" in the UK immunization program after all nursing home residents were vaccinated or had already received an invitation to vaccinate. Information about this means that the government has managed to meet the previously set deadline and the program may be continued in other social groups.more

The ruling PiS party will probably present the "new Polish order" at the end of February this year -the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports. According to the journal, the package of solutions is wide - it includes both economic and investment ideas as well as family support.more

In the first two weeks of the current lockdown in England, more than 60 outbreaks of infection have been recorded in stationary offices, the BBC reported today, citing data from Public Health England. As noted, not all employers have heeded the government's recommendation to switch completely to working from home.more

Moderna will test a new version of the vaccine adapted to the so-called the African variant. Similar research was also announced by Pfizer.more

AstraZeneca will increase its coronavirus vaccine deliveries to the EU by 30 percent, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday as the bloc sought to claw back time lost rolling out the jabs. The aim was still to vaccinate 70 percent of adults in the EU by the end of summer, she added.more

Captain Sir Tom Moore has been admitted to hospital with coronavirus, his daughter said. The 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital after requiring help with his breathing, Hannah Ingram-Moore said on Twitter.more

A record 598,389 people were given their first coronavirus vaccination in one day across the UK on Saturday, government figures show.more

While some countries and companies see electronic "vaccine passports" as the key to unlocking international travel and tourism, not everyone is thrilled with such solutions. The idea provokes resistance from the institution and raises ethical controversy.more

The supply of Moderna vaccines arrived in Poland, said the head of the Material Reserves Agency Michał Kuczmierowski yesterday to Polsat News. It is about a delayed delivery that was supposed to reach Poland last Tuesday. According to unofficial information, it is 42 thousand doses.more

Your pocket guide to the key dates to look out for in the coming months, when the Government has promised us things will happen in 2021 as the UK looks to emerge from the third coronavirus lockdown.more

Despite the introduced restrictions, the so-called the UK variant of the coronavirus - one of three currently a source of global concern - has already been detected on all continents and is on track to become the global dominant variant.more

'Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence', writes Tony Cormer - former in-house historian of GCHQ.more

Loss of smell is one of the symptoms of the coronavirus. It happens that this symptom persists for some time after recovery. According to the British scientist, one of the effective treatments may be smell training.more

Italy is to ease its coronavirus restrictions across most of the country, with the exception of five regions, from Monday 1 February (not from 31 January as was widely reported when the news first broke yesterday evening).more

We only know the tip of the iceberg of all the effects of Covid-19, said Dr. Chantal Raherison-Semjen, president of the French Pulmonology Society, in an interview with Le Parisien. The doctor urges us not to ignore the remnants of the course of Covid-19, such as chronic fatigue or cough.more

On Saturday, Victoria's sports minister, Martin Pakula, confirmed the government had agreed to a plan that would allow daily crowd capacity of 30,000 for the first eight days of the tournament, reducing to 25,000 per day from the start of the tournament quarter-finals. more

Poland is ahead of all the largest European Union countries in terms of the number of vaccinations per 100 inhabitants, according to statistics on the Our World in Data portal based at the University of Oxford. The data include vaccinations performed by January 28.more

The closure of the border between Norway and Sweden has caused problems for many clubs, especially in the border towns of Oerje in Norway and Tockfors in Sweden. The local ski jump is so built that the competitors start their inrun in Sweden and land in Norway.more