Today, 16 planes from cities in Great Britain are expected to arrive at Kraków Airport by midnight. Flights are operated by such carriers as: Ryanair, British Airways, Wizz Air and EasyJet.more
Delivery of the coronavirus vaccine will not be disrupted as a result of France's ban on freight and travel from the UK, the transport secretary has told Sky News.more
Hospital workers are to be vaccinated first on Covid-19. However, among several hundred thousand people, so far only a few tens of thousands are willing. If they do not want to vaccinate, how can they convince others to do so? - asks the Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza".more
France will start its COVID-19 vaccination programme next Sunday, Health Minister Olivier Veran wrote on his Twitter feed. Veran added in his Tweet on Monday that the French vaccination programme would start off with the most vulnerable members of the population, such as the elderly.more
Due to the observed mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, all people coming to Poland, in particular from Great Britain, can take the test free of charge. You should contact the hotline of the sanitary inspection at +48 22 25 00 115, the Chief Sanitary Inspector reported.more
The afternoon flight from Warsaw to London-Heathrow PLL LOT will perform with its largest plane - the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner - said the company's spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski today. The machine can take 294 passengers on board.more
The Ministry of Health has announced that the new covid-19 mutation spreading through the UK was confirmed in a subject who returned in recent days from the United Kingdom.more
Boris Johnson will chair an urgent Cobra meeting on Monday after the France-UK border closure brought Dover ferry traffic and rail services to a standstill.more
A number of European countries have or are considering banning travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious variant of coronavirus.more
Europe is preparing for a Christmas season like no other, as governments desperately try to thread the needle between preserving public health and allowing families to gather for traditional celebrations at the end of a tough year.more
Germany says a similar ban is now a "serious option," according to a news report. The new strain, which is up to 70% more infectious, is causing alarm across Europe.
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The new strain of COVID-19 is out of control and people need to behave as if they already have the virus, especially in the new Tier 4 areas of England, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned.more
While the nation continues to see record levels of new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, wealthy patients in Southern California - the epicenter of the state's Covid-19 crisis - are offering to pay top dollar to cut the line and be among the first to receive a vaccine.more
In the UK, 27,052 new coronavirus infections have been detected in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number to over two million, and 534 more deaths from Covid-19 have been registered, the British government said yesterday afternoon.more
We can already see the light, it is vaccinations, if the deliveries of preparations will proceed according to the plan and people will apply for vaccination en masse, in the second quarter of next year we will start to slowly recover from the epidemic - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki assessed in an interview with "Gazeta Polska".more
Belgium will tighten international entry restrictions Dec. 25 as part of measures to slow transmission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). From that date, all nonresidents will require proof of a negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, taken within 48 hours prior to arrival, before entering the country; exceptions will apply to crossborder commuters.more
A fourth tier of coronavirus restrictions is expected to be introduced in London and south-east England, sources have told the BBC. There is also expected to be a tightening of the plans to relax the rules around households gathering during the Christmas period.more
A call for a pan-European commitment to a rapid and lasting reduction in the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections was published in The Lancet by a group of scientists from European countries. Experts warn that failure to act will result in new waves of infection.more
There is no such concept in Polish law as national quarantine. On the other hand, there is something like a state of natural disaster in Polish law, and the state of a natural disaster must be introduced - yesterday assessed the government's decision by the leader of the Poland 2050 movement, Szymon Hołownia.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday that he hopes to avoid a new nationwide lockdown in England after Christmas, although he admitted that the number of coronavirus infections in recent weeks has increased very sharply.more
