A Brazilian doctor who died with Covid-19 after volunteering for AstraZeneca and Oxford University's vaccine trial was not part of the experimental group that received the jab, according to reports. more
South Yorkshire will face the toughest Covid rules from Saturday, the mayor for the Sheffield City Region has said. Labour Mayor Dan Jarvis said the move to tier three followed "extensive discussions" with ministers. The new restrictions will apply to all four local authority areas in South Yorkshire - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.more
Laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in another 10,040 people - the highest number since the pandemic began. 130 more people have also died, the health ministry said today. The most infections were recorded in the province Lesser Poland - 1,315.more
In Ireland, 13 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the last 24 hours, the highest number since mid-May and 1,269 coronavirus infections were detected, the country's health ministry said yesterday.more
A coronavirus vaccine is "unlikely" to completely stop infections and the disease might never fully disappear, the government's chief scientific adviser has said.more
British scientists are preparing to launch a study in which healthy volunteers will be deliberately infected with the coronavirus, which is expected to speed up vaccine development, said Tuesday.more
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 are now more likely to survive than they were a few months ago, a UK study found. First of all, the percentage of deaths in intensive care units decreased.more
A further 18,804 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK, and 80 new deaths have been reported. It takes the total case numbers to 741,212 and the total number of deaths, according to the government, to 43,726.more
Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk wants to return stronger after learning he needs surgery on the knee injury he sustained in the 2-2 draw at Everton.more
In a series of recommendations to fix the struggling Covid-19 test, trace and isolate system in England, health researchers from University College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine say that pooled testing for Covid-19 could significantly increase testing capacity in a relatively short space of time and help with the identification of asymptomatic cases in key workers.more
There will be special additions for doctors fighting the coronavirus. But those who refrain from work or flee on layoffs must take into account inspections, writes Monday's Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, informing about the assumptions of the bill on which the government is working.more
Britain recorded 16,982 new daily cases of COVID-19 in the space of 24 hours, according to government data issued on Sunday, up from 16,717 the previous day.more
The first field hospital will be built at the National Stadium in Poland due to the growing scale of coronavirus infections in Poland. Information on this subject has already been confirmed by sources in the Polish government.more
The health care system must move towards mass testing for the presence of coronavirus, said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Krzysztof Książek from the Medical University of Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań.more
Hospitals in Birmingham, the UK's second-largest city, are at a tipping point due to the number of coronavirus patients and will stop seeing other patients if they are not urgent, medical authorities have warned.more
Chancellor Angela Merkel called on German citizens to limit contacts and refrain from traveling. She did so in a video speech from the daily "Bild".more
The UK has recorded a good 150 deaths from Covid-19 in the last good, the highest number in more than four months, and 16,171 coronavirus infections have also been detected, the British government reported yesterday afternoon.more
Laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in another 9,622 people. These are the most confirmed cases since the beginning of the epidemic - the Polish health ministry said today 84 sick people also died. The most infections were recorded in the province. Mazowieckie - 1 485.more