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North Korea has asked the international organization GAVI, which helps vaccinate low-income countries, to assign it vaccines against Covid-19, the Wall Street Journal reported. Officially, no infection has been registered in North Korea.more

People receiving jabs should avoid drinking alcohol because it alters the make-up of microorganisms in the gut that help stop bacteria and viruses getting through, according to Immunologist Professor Sheena Cruickshank.more

Everyone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown beginning at midnight, Boris Johnson has announced. All schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February.more

The UK has recorded another 58,784 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours – the highest daily figure to date. It is the first time the figure has exceeded 58,000 overnight. It takes the total number of infections recorded across Britain since the start of the pandemic to 2,713,563. more

According to information from the "Bild" daily, the German federal government and federal state authorities agreed that the lockdown in the country should be extended until January 31. The final decision will be made tomorrow by Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting with the heads of the federal states, the newspaper reports.more

Boris Johnson is reportedly set to decide today whether to implement tougher Covid-19 restrictions lasting for months, as he faces urgent calls to introduce a national lockdown.more

The new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is even more dangerous than the highly infectious British variant, UK Minister Matt Hancock said.more

An 82-year-old man has become the first person in the world to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine since it was approved for use in the UK.more

The Polish portal "Wprost" announced yesterday that it had reached an e-mail regarding vaccinations sent to the actors by the director of the Krystyna Janda Foundation for Culture. It concerns the earlier vaccination of COVID-19 by people from outside the "0" group, including famous actors.more

In the UK, 54,990 new coronavirus infections have been detected in the last 24 hours and 454 deaths have been registered due to Covid-19, the British government reported yesterday afternoon.more

80 percent of teachers and other school workers in Italy would like to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as possible - the results of the poll were published ahead of the school opening announced on January 7.more

The leader of the opposition has called on Boris Johnson to implement tough nationwide Covid-19 restrictions as soon as tomorrow.more

The Cyprus Ministry of Health said today that a new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been detected in 12 people arriving from the UK. These people arrived on the Mediterranean island between 6 and 20 December.more

A well-known figure of British television - Jeremy Clarkson - shared his reflections on the recent coronavirus infection. Gwiazdor reported that after testing positive, he was terrified because he treated himself as a person at risk.more

Boris Johnson has signalled that England's current Covid tier system could be tightened, with tougher measures likely to come in.more

The health services of Denmark and Sweden have announced that more cases of the more contagious British mutation of the coronavirus have been confirmed in these countries.more

Public Health England (PHE) has said it does not recommend mixing COVID-19 vaccines from different suppliers. The warning comes as distribution of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is due to start in the UK next week, the second roll-out following the launch of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in December, with both requiring two doses.more

"It was done somewhat in secret; no one knew about it" - this is how Senator Stanisław Karczewski commented for the portal wPolityce.pl about the earlier vaccination of COVID-19 by people from outside the "0" group, including famous actors.more

Te United Kingdom has recorded 57,725 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours - the highest figure so far. Tuesday's figure of 53,135 cases was the previous highest since the pandemic began.more

Medics braced for "worrying" next few months, as the National Education Union calls for schools to remain closed to avoid a "really dangerous situation".more

There have been more than 2.5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and nearly 75,000 people have died, government figures show. A further 53,285 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Friday.more

Almost one million people in the UK have been given their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the Department of Health says.more

After what we have gone through, I will be happy if 2021 will be the time when we will defeat the pandemic - admits Professor Maciej Banach, director of the Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute in Łódź.more

The pharmacy industry is urging the government to use its high street network to accelerate the delivery of the newly approved vaccine.more

The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record. And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.more