England has once again been plunged into a full lockdown – meaning only essential shops can remain open. Here’s what the main chain stores are doing for the third lockdown
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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
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the public that the recovery from the new lockdown in England would be gradual - not "a big bang, but a gradual unpacking".more
The state of emergency in Italy, introduced in January 2020, may be extended until July 31 - this hypothesis is reported today by the daily Il Messaggero. Earlier, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte indicated that this status would be extended as long as necessary.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
British Transport Minister Grant Shapps thanked the Polish authorities in a letter sent to the Polish ambassador in London, Arkady Rzegocki, for their help in unloading a truck congestion in Dover at the end of December.more
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced another tightening of coronavirus restrictions. From now until January 17, the meeting limit will be reduced to five people, and the social distance requirement will be increased to two meters.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
Royal Mail has said it is doing 'everything necessary' to deliver post after claims some are still receiving Christmas cards which were posted on time.more
Germany's state and federal governments agreed on Tuesday to extend and expand coronavirus lockdown rules in the country. The current lockdown regulations, including the closure of schools, will now be in place until at least January 31, and new rules have been introduced.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
Italy is another country to announce its coronavirus vaccine. Today it is reported that its effectiveness is 92.5 percent, and the annual production will be 100 million doses.more
The word "coronavirus" was chosen as the Word of the Year by Internet users and the chapter of linguists in the Words na Czasie competition run by the Institute of Polish Language at the University of Warsaw.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
Rishi Sunak has unveiled one-off grants of up to £9,000 for struggling firms to help them get through to spring. The Treasury revealed a fresh £4.6billion package to help retail, hospitality and leisure sector businesses cope with the seven-week shut-down.more
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
