The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg did not accept the complaint submitted by the family of a Polish citizen living in a coma living in England, his relatives said. This allows the hospital to cut off its food and water supply.more
Ireland announced its strictest lockdown measures since early last year on Wednesday as a “tsunami” of infections caused by a new COVID-19 variant pushed hospitalisations to a record high and sparked fears the healthcare system could be overwhelmed.more
Almost 1.5 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, vowing to quickly expand a programme to inoculate the most vulnerable in Britain by mid-February.more
Cases have risen by 52,618 as the country remains in the grip of a devastating spike in infections -with the mass rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca launching today.more
The Ministry of Health admits that the program of combating infertility has not worked out and is canceling the existing support - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports today.more
A heart attack victim who has been critically ill in Derriford Hospital for two months will have his life support turned off following a court hearing. The middle-aged patient, who can only be identified as 'RS' due to legal reasons, will be allowed to die after a legal battle between his wife and mother.more
The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine should be accelerated using the military, pharmacies, drive-in jabs, prizes for staff and even online vaccination kits, a new report says.more
The famous actor Cezary Pazura, will again encourage Poles to vaccinate against COVID-19 as an ambassador of the social campaign. The recording of the spot began yesterday, which will soon be broadcast on TV and the Internet, the Government Information Center informed on Wednesday.more
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a positive opinion on the authorization of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 in the EU. The opinion is not binding and the final approval for placing on the market is made by the European Commission.more
As many as 1,041 new deaths from Covid-19 have been registered in the last 24 hours in the UK, the highest record since late April, and the number of new infections, 62,322, broke the record again, the British government said today.more
Will vaccination be able to achieve herd immunity in 2021? Or maybe it will fail? We should prepare for various hypothetical scenarios for the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and in the coming years, argues the COVID-19 team of the Polish Academy of Sciences.more
UK opposition Labor leader Keir Starmer said he would support the government's new coronavirus restrictions, but called on the government to make Britain the first country to vaccinate the entire population against Covid-19.more
More than 1 million people in England have coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says, as the UK hits another record of daily COVID-19 infections with a further 60,000 positive tests.more
The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started. According to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who have tested positive was 60,916.more
The Order of Mr Justice Cohen which authorises University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust to withdraw all life-sustaining treatment from a middle-aged Polish man, referred to only as “RS”, will come into force at 4 pm on 7 January, the Court of Protection has decided.
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Poland expects to start vaccinating the second group of people in its national vaccination programme in the last week of January, the government’s commissioner for the country's vaccination strategy has said.more
British pediatricians reassure that the emergence of a new variant of the coronavirus has not increased severe cases of COVID-19 in children. The elderly are still more at risk.more
The German daily "Bild" published a letter yesterday in which health ministers from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands asked the European Commission to take a leading role in purchasing vaccines against Covid-19. From this - according to the newspaper - "the vaccine disaster in the EU began".more
Boris Johnson has plunged England into its third full lockdown following his latest address to the nation, amid a surge in cases of the new coronavirus variant.more
If any of the medics or doctors believes that we have taken his vaccine from him - then I am very sorry - said actress and director Krystyna Janda yesterday.more
