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Persons arriving in Poland by means of public transport are subject to a mandatory 10-day quarantine; the campaign of free tests for people coming to the country has come to an end - said the spokesman of the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, Jan Bondar.more

A row in Italy over anti-vaxxer doctors and other medical staff being obliged to vaccinate against COVID-19 is rumbling on. The government has yet to decide whether to make COVID vaccination compulsory.more

UK residents fear that even more severe restrictions will appear in the country in the near future, as the number of infections continues to increase and reaches unprecedented proportions. Some believe that the introduction of a new level of restriction is necessary because some UK residents repeatedly ignore the recommendations and guidance of health authorities.more

The new coronavirus strain sweeping Britain has been in Germany since November, health officials said Tuesday, after detecting the variant in a patient who died in the north of the country. more

The most stringent intervention scenario with tier 4 (restrictions) England-wide and schools closed during Jan and 2 mn individuals vaccinated per week, is the only scenario we considered which reduces peak ICU (intensive care) burden below the levels seen during the first wave, the study said.more

Passengers aged 13 and up traveling commercially to the Netherlands from nearly any origin point in the world will be required to provide test results showing they do not have an active SARS-CoV-2 infection. The government’s newest measure to reduce coronavirus cases in the Netherlands went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.more

A 31-year-old man has been caught attempting to walk through the Channel Tunnel. A spokesman for Eurotunnel confirmed: "A person was detected inside the Channel Tunnel and taken into custody by the French Authorities.more

According to Italian doctors, Italy has recorded its first case of new coronavirus strain detected in Britain , Report mentions, citing La Republica.more

There are now more COVID-19 patients in hospitals in UK than there were during the peak of the first wave, new figures show.more

About half of the Britons who were ordered to wait out their quarantine in the ski resort of Verbier have gone into hiding. Swiss authorities began to suspect something unusual when their meals were left untouched.more

Britain reported 41,385 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, a daily record, as a rapidly spreading variant of the coronavirus increases infection rates and the holiday weekend impacted the reporting of some new cases.more

Polish ski jumpers were allowed to start in today's competition in Oberstdorf, inaugurating the Four Hills Tournament. The condition was negative coronavirus test results across the board.more

The Finnish health ministry said yesterday it has discovered the country's first infection with a new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus previously detected in the UK. The infected person is a Finnish national who came from the Islands after Christmasmore

In mid-December, the percentage of people in the UK who were detected with a new type of coronavirus out of all infections found ranged from 68%. in London up to 7 percent in the north-west of England - according to the statistics office of the ONS.more

The head of the EU agency Europol has warned that criminal groups will try to use the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to market and monetize fake, counterfeit vaccines.more

Since the beginning of the crisis related to the temporary closure of the English Channel crossing, 21,849 tests have been performed on truck drivers, of which 66 people have confirmed the presence of the coronavirus, said the British Transport Minister Grant Shapps.more

Less than half (47%) of Poles declare that they are going to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A large proportion of Poles, 44%, remain skeptical - reports Rzeczpospolita, citing the IBRiS survey. A similar distrust of Western medicine has been reported in many countries in the so-called former Eastern Bloc.more

The Japanese government today suspended entry to the country for non-permanent residents from most parts of the world until the end of January. This is to prevent infections with a new variant of the coronavirus, Japanese media reported.more

Wine countries are losing out on the pandemic as consumers drink less wine. The opposite is true for Poles - we can read in today's "Puls Biznesu".more

The Irish vaccination programme and rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will begin on Tuesday, December 29th, HSE chief executive Paul Reid has said.more

The government does not introduce a curfew on New Year's Eve, because for this purpose it would be necessary to introduce a state of emergency, it only calls for not moving and not using fireworks - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki explained yesterday.more

The social epidemiologist predicts a surge in 'sexual licentiousness' and a 'reverse of religiosity'.more

The EU is launching a co-ordinated vaccine rollout to fight Covid-19, in what the bloc's top official says is a "touching moment of unity". European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had been delivered to all 27 member states.more

British Deputy Foreign Minister Wendy Morton today thanked Poland for helping to conduct coronavirus tests on drivers waiting to cross the English Channel to France.more

Medical services in the Canadian province of Ontario yesterday announced two confirmed cases of a new mutation in the coronavirus. The same mutation that appeared in Great Britain was found in Canadian patients.more