The Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, announced yesterday a "corona dispensation" for the Christmas and New Year period. Norwegians will be able to invite up to 10 people to their homes twice, if the table manages to keep one meter spacing.more
More than half of Britons are eager to adopt the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and more than half believe it should be mandatory, according to a Savanta ComRes survey published yesterday.more
The United Kingdom recorded 16,170 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday and 648 deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the virus, according to official data. Tuesday's data had shown 13,430 new coronavirus infections and 603 deaths.more
Lifting the pandemic restrictions ahead of Christmas could increase the number of hospital admissions in the first week of January, warned the head of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Andrea Ammon. "Despite the upcoming holidays, it is not the time to loosen the restrictions," she added.more
There are no plans to introduce a "vaccine passport" to give people access to places such as pubs and restaurants once a coronavirus jab becomes available, says Michael Gove.more
Britain on Tuesday reported 13,430 new COVID-19 cases and 603 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, both up on Monday’s tallies, according to government data.more
More than one-third of kids who have COVID-19 are asymptomatic, according to a University of Alberta study that suggests youngsters diagnosed with the disease may represent just a fraction of those infected.more
The United Kingdom reported 12,330 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, up from 12,155 a day earlier and taking the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 1,629,657 cases, government data showed.more
For three days until yesterday morning, 8,782 new laboratory-confirmed coronavirus carriers were registered in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, bringing their total number to 327,072 since the start of the pandemic on February 24, the Swiss Federal Office of Health (BAG) reported.more
Singing Christmas carols, including caroling around the house, nativity play in schools and St. Santa Claus will be allowed - there are guidelines announced by the British government for Christmas, although there will be restrictions in areas with the highest level of restrictions.more
Shoppers should not spend more than 15 minutes inside a store to lower the risk of catching coronavirus during the Christmas rush, a Government scientist has warned. more
In England, for the first time in many decades, the five-year survival rate of cancer patients will most likely decline this year - warns Prof. Mike Richards. Polish specialists have previously raised similar concerns.more
This year, Poles bought 20.7 million packages of prescription antidepressants. This is over a million more than the year before - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more
The French Supreme Health Authority (HAS) issued today recommendations on vaccination against Covid-19. In the first place, residents of nursing homes and the elderly with comorbidities are to be vaccinated, as well as health care workers.more
If the vaccines against the coronavirus work, we will emerge from the pandemic by the end of the summer, according to Professor Franco Locatelli, President of the Italian Healthcare Council.more
The Shard has been lit up in a dazzling multicoloured display in honour of NHS and key workers. Medical workers from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust were invited to carry out the annual Christmas switch-on, which saw all 20 storeys of the building lit up with more than 575 LED lights on Thursday night.
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101-year-old resident of Lombardy in the north of Italy has already defeated the coronavirus twice and as a child - the Spanish flu; this is one of the few such cases in the world - emphasized the head of the regional government Attilio Fontana, greeting the cured woman.more
Boris Johnson has proposed an expiry date for England’s tiered coronavirus restrictions in a bid to reassure furious Tory MPs that the measures will not drag on for months.more
“I see nice concern in regards to the Christmas dinner. Fear about having to eat Christmas dinner within the hospital, or worse – by no means to eat it once more,” wrote a nurse from Lombardy, who grew to become a logo of the combat towards the pandemic, on social media. a dialogue in Italy about restrictions on Christmas.more
A woman in Singapore, who contracted the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus. Scientists are considering this as a new clue to decipher how the infection transfers from the mother to the child.more
