The PM hopes to publish details next month of the criteria he will use to start easing the lockdown in England, a senior government source has said.more
The second case of the British coronavirus mutation in Poland was detected as part of a teacher screening test and concerns one of the teachers in Wrocław, said the head of the Polish Ministry of Health, Adam Niedzielski.more
There is a ‘real danger’ schools will stay closed until the summer, the Children’s Commissioner has warned. Anne Longfield said a ‘lack of planning’ has made this ‘inevitable’ as she called on ministers to create a roadmap for reopening schools. more
Johnson & Johnson efficacy data should be available in late January or early February. However, the preliminary assessment of previous clinical vaccine studies was positive, showing that a single dose of the substance elicited a strong immune response and was generally well tolerated, recalls Reuters.more
Boris Johnson has insisted his government “did everything we could” to limit coronavirus deaths and expressed sorrow after the total UK death toll exceeded 100,000 on nearly every metric, but refused to discuss the reasons why it might be so high.more
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government has decided to extend the Level 5 restrictions until 5 March with a view to crushing the numbers of those contracting the disease and in turn the numbers needing hospitalisation and intensive care.more
There are 95 confirmed cases of the British virus mutation in Sweden. This is stated by the Public Health Agency at today's press conference. 'It can take over and become the dominant tribe', says Anders Tegnell.more
The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to the end of November – representing more than 1.7 million people – from 4.9% in the three months to the end of October, reaching the highest level since August 2016. more
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant said German media reports claiming that the vaccine had an 8% efficacy rate in people above 65 were "completely incorrect."more
There has not been such a low birth rate in Poland for many years. This is combined with the highest number of deaths in decades - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more
A British study found widely used antibiotics azithromycin and doxycycline were generally ineffective against early-stage COVID-19, as the search for treatments against the illness continues while vaccines are being rolled-out.more
Eight more cases of infection with the British variant of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the municipality of Nordre Follo near the Norwegian capital, Oslo. There are 25 of them in total and they were detected in the local nursing home and kindergarten.more
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa will leave his job on Tuesday to run for elections scheduled in Catalonia on Feb. 14 to try and win the regional government away from pro-independence parties.more
The European Commission has proposed additional restrictions on travel from abroad to the European Union, presenting them as a response to "new variants of the coronavirus and the unstable global health situation".more
Passengers on the subway or bus should avoid talking to other people, phone calls are also inadvisable, because despite the use of a mask, the risk of coronavirus infection is higher, warns the French Academy of Sciences.more
Men who work in low-skilled jobs and work in social care, recreation and other service occupations have the highest death rate from Covid-19, the National Statistics Office of the ONS reported.more
The president of the European Commission spoke today by phone with Pascal Soriot, president of the British company AstraZeneca, about the delays in the delivery of vaccines to the EU announced by the giant. The European Commission expects the company to fulfill its contractual obligations.more
