The United Kingdom reported 15,450 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total over the past seven days to 40,504, a 23% drop compared with the previous seven-day period.more
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique will be out for a reported three to five months with knee ligament injuries. Pique, 33, sprained the internal lateral ligament in his right knee and suffered a partial injury to the anterior cruciate ligament during Saturday's defeat by Atletico Madrid.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today called "fantastic news" that the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford could be up to 90% effective.more
Boris Johnson is set to announce a move to scrap self isolation for contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus, as part of major a shake up of the track and trace system.more
Britain’s AstraZeneca said on Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 90% effective without any serious side effects, giving the world another important tool to halt the COVID-19 pandemic.more
Life in the UK will start getting back to normal ‘some time after Easter’, according to Matt Hancock. Speaking upon hearing the Oxford vaccine candidate has been demonstrated to be up to 90% effective, the health secretary stressed the ‘bulk’ of the population will need to be immunised before Covid rules can be eased significantly.more
Britain could give regulatory approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine this week, even before the United States authorises it, the Telegraph news site reported on Sunday.more
Coronavirus cases in the UK have passed 1.5 million after the Government announced a further 18,662 cases on Sunday.
The total number of lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK has now reached 1,512,045.more
"We will have a long time to face the coronavirus," warns researcher Maria Rosaria Capobianchi of the research team at Rome's infectious diseases hospital, where it was first isolated at the start of the pandemic.more
The British government plans to loosen restrictions for the Christmas period for a week - December 22-28 - longer than expected so far - the Daily Telegraph revealed today. The decision on this matter may be announced tomorrow.more
Laboratory tests have confirmed coronavirus infection in another 18,467 people in Poland - this is the least since November 2, 330 people have died - the Ministry of Health reported today. The greatest number of infections was recorded in Masovia and Greater Poland.more
The United Kingdom recorded 19,875 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday and 341 deaths of people who had tested positive for the virus within 28 days, official data showed.more
The British government on Friday said it has asked its independent medicines regulator to study Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine with a view to an imminent roll-out.more
A 9-year-old girl infected with coronavirus died in Lublin, she had comorbidities - the Provincial Sanitary and Epidemiological Station in Lublin reported on Saturday.more
One in four people in Spain has symptoms of depression related to the coronavirus epidemic, according to a study by the Central Council of Psychology (COP) in Madrid. The survey was carried out on several thousand customers of Spanish shopping centers.more
The Netherlands will ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in supermarkets from 2024 in a drive to get more people to give up smoking, the government said on Friday.more
According to the latest official data from the United Kingdom, the number of new daily coronavirus cases in that country was reported at 20252 on Friday.more
Wearing masks is not a panacea, but if 95 percent people did, lockdowns would not be necessary, said Dr. Henri Kluge, Regional Director of the World Health Organization in Europe. Lockdown should be the "last resort" for governments, he added.more
After a week of easing restrictions in Northern Ireland next Friday, November 27, another two-week lockdown will begin, the Northern Irish government announced on Thursday evening. The new restrictions will be more severe than the existing ones.more
As the Minister of Health, who is responsible for ensuring the health of Poles, I will recommend that we spend Christmas at home with the immediate family, but without any other friends - said health minister Adam Niedzielski in an interview for Super Express.more
Mixing households at Christmas could pose "substantial risks", particularly for older people more vulnerable to coronavirus, a scientist advising the government has warned.more
Nurses in Poland are no longer able to fight Covid-19 without support, and are considering a massive surrender of their profession. For the sick, this may mean death - today's "Rzeczpospolita" alarms.more
