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The Government is coming under increasing pressure to step in to assist London’s renters after figures showed that more than one in seven tenants in the capital have fallen behind on rent during the pandemic. more

Covid-19 security measures and significant travel restrictions could take up to the next four to five years, said Lawrence Wong, Singapore minister and member of the pandemic team.more

People should avoid booking summer holidays at the moment, a Government minister has warned.more

A factory in North Wales, where AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is produced, has been partially evacuated after receiving a suspect package.more

People infected with the new variant of the coronavirus discovered in the UK are less likely to report loss of taste and smell, but are more likely to develop other main symptoms, according to a study by the British statistical office ONS.more

Ryanair has said it will fly an Irish couple home from Poland free of charge after they were refused permission to board a flight from Krakow to Dublin because their negative Covid-19 PCR test results were printed in Polish. more

74-year-old Geoffrey Woolf from London returned home after 306 days in hospital for COVID-19 and its complications. He was in a pharmacological coma and had been ventilated for over two months.more

The government on the Vistula River is considering opening shopping malls, but there is no chance of departing from the rest of the restrictions for the time being - informs "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" based on its sources.more

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

More than 23,000 UK workers at supermarket Lidl are to get a £200 bonus in recognition of their hard work during the pandemic.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

UK arrivals could be forced to pay more than £1,000 each for 10-day quarantine hotel stays, with the Government set to reveal a plan today. 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

The combined wealth of the world's 10 richest men rose by $540bn (£400bn) during the pandemic, according to Oxfam.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