Koronawirus

The Japanese government has vehemently denied a story that it has privately concluded that this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are doomed, calling them “categorically untrue”.more

One in 55 people in private households had the virus between January 10 and 16 2021 – the equivalent of 1.02 million people, or 1.88% of the population, according to the Office for National Statistics.more

A police court magistrate in Brussels has acquitted a man charged with failing to wear a face mask, arguing that the obligation to do so is unconstitutional.more

For the second year running Europe's largest live music event will not go ahead - a further blow to the struggling music industry.more

France will have to resort to a strict lockdown like those in Ireland and Britain if it fails to rein in the more contagious variants of the coronavirus, a French epidemiologist and government adviser said on Friday.more

In the first Scottish poll conducted after Britain left the post-Brexit transition, support for independence has dropped slightly, but its supporters still have a clear advantage over opponents.more

KLM said it would cut an additional 1,000 jobs in 2021 and warned on Thursday that government plans to require all passengers and crew to pass a COVID-19 test before flying to the Netherlands would ground its long-haul flights. more

Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for coronavirus. The club confirmed the news on their official website, with the Frenchman set to go into a spell of isolation.more

Amid fears of a third coronavirus wave, the European Union(EU) has proposed setting up of "dark red" coronavirus hot spots.more

The Prime Minister is set to hold a Downing Street press conference at 5pm amid speculation over how long England’s lockdown will last.more

Everyone in England who tests positive for coronavirus could be given £500 to persuade them to stay at home, according to a leaked government document.more

Portugal is to suspend flight connections with the UK from Saturday (January 23) due to the spread of the British variant of Covid-19.more

According to data available to the UK government, the decision to increase the time interval between the first and second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech to 12 weeks was right, Health Minister Matt Hancock announced today.more

Fears of being cooped up during a curfew have led the Dutch to resort to creative ways to dodge the rules, with people signing up for borrow-a-dog services and ordering the uniforms of home delivery companies.more

The UK has a “long way to go” before coronavirus restrictions can be eased, Priti Patel has warned. The Home Secretary said it was “too early” to discuss relaxing lockdown rules as Covid deaths and hospital admissions continue to surge across the country.more

NHS staff are preparing to transport patients using two London buses that have been converted into makeshift ambulances, in another sign of the strain Covid is putting on the capital’s health services.more

On the Omnicalculator.com platform, the Polish edition of the tool for checking when we can expect vaccination against coronavirus has appeared. Vaccine Queue Calculator, in Polish, the COVID-19 Vaccine Queue Calculator, will estimate how many people are approximately in front of us.more

Travellers arriving in the UK could be forced to pay to stay in a ‘quarantine hotel’ for two weeks. Under plans similar to the Australian border system, government officials are reportedly talking with hotel groups over potentially using their facilities as quarantine centres for arrivals.more

The Borussia Monchengladbach forward international Breel Embolo fled from police via a rooftop after an illegal lockdown party raid, reports say.more

W Polsce wykryto tzw. brytyjska mutację koronawirusa, która charakteryzuje się wyższą zakaźnością. Fakt wykrycia zgłoszono już do międzynarodowego systemu raportowania sekwencji wirusa (GISAID).more

The clothing industry in Poland has had the worst year in history with a decrease in sales of over 22 percent. This year, a rebound is expected, and new brands are entering Poland, reports "Rzeczpospolita" today.more

"France is in favor of sanitary checks at intra-European borders to contain the spread of new variants of the coronavirus," government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced ahead of today's European Council summit.more

The Government will inform schools next week whether they will be able to reopen after the February half-term. Education secretary Gavin Williamson said one of the ‘key criteria’ for reopening schools would be ensuring the pressure on the NHS had eased.more

The Dutch government on Wednesday proposed the first countrywide curfew since the Second World War and a ban on flights from South Africa and Britain in its toughest moves yet to limit the spread of new coronavirus mutations in the Netherlands.more

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his country's record daily COVID-19 death toll is "appalling", but has warned it may get worse in the coming weeks.more