The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged nations on Monday to carefully consider the coming ski season’s risks, as Switzerland runs lifts and Austria mulls following suit while Germany, Italy and France shutter mountain operations to slow the pandemic.more
Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins owner Arcadia has gone into administration, putting 13,000 jobs at risk. The High Street giant has hired administrators from Deloitte after the pandemic "severely impacted" sales across the group.more
The United Kingdom reported 12,330 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, up from 12,155 a day earlier and taking the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 1,629,657 cases, government data showed.more
For three days until yesterday morning, 8,782 new laboratory-confirmed coronavirus carriers were registered in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, bringing their total number to 327,072 since the start of the pandemic on February 24, the Swiss Federal Office of Health (BAG) reported.more
Welsh pubs, restaurants and cafes will be banned from serving alcohol from Friday and will be unable to open to customers beyond 18:00 GMT. First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the new rules to tackle a rise in coronavirus cases. Business groups said the move would devastate Wales' hospitality industry, with closures "guaranteed".more
Singing Christmas carols, including caroling around the house, nativity play in schools and St. Santa Claus will be allowed - there are guidelines announced by the British government for Christmas, although there will be restrictions in areas with the highest level of restrictions.more
Shoppers should not spend more than 15 minutes inside a store to lower the risk of catching coronavirus during the Christmas rush, a Government scientist has warned. more
This year, Poles bought 20.7 million packages of prescription antidepressants. This is over a million more than the year before - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more
The French Supreme Health Authority (HAS) issued today recommendations on vaccination against Covid-19. In the first place, residents of nursing homes and the elderly with comorbidities are to be vaccinated, as well as health care workers.more
Pizza Hut Delivery is to hire 2,500 staff in a recruitment spree after its plans for rapid expansion were boosted by surging demand for takeaways during the pandemic.more
If the vaccines against the coronavirus work, we will emerge from the pandemic by the end of the summer, according to Professor Franco Locatelli, President of the Italian Healthcare Council.more
The Shard has been lit up in a dazzling multicoloured display in honour of NHS and key workers. Medical workers from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust were invited to carry out the annual Christmas switch-on, which saw all 20 storeys of the building lit up with more than 575 LED lights on Thursday night.
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Until December 27, 2020, it is mandatory to cover the mouth and nose in workplaces if there is more than one person in the room - according to the regulation of Polish government. The employer is still required to provide disposable gloves or hand sanitizers.more
101-year-old resident of Lombardy in the north of Italy has already defeated the coronavirus twice and as a child - the Spanish flu; this is one of the few such cases in the world - emphasized the head of the regional government Attilio Fontana, greeting the cured woman.more
Boris Johnson has proposed an expiry date for England’s tiered coronavirus restrictions in a bid to reassure furious Tory MPs that the measures will not drag on for months.more
More than 150 people have been arrested as anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police in central London after officers sought to break up the demonstration.more
“I see nice concern in regards to the Christmas dinner. Fear about having to eat Christmas dinner within the hospital, or worse – by no means to eat it once more,” wrote a nurse from Lombardy, who grew to become a logo of the combat towards the pandemic, on social media. a dialogue in Italy about restrictions on Christmas.more
A woman in Singapore, who contracted the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus. Scientists are considering this as a new clue to decipher how the infection transfers from the mother to the child.more
A further 15,871 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK today, marking a 20 per cent drop on the number of cases reported last Saturday. Today's case total shaves a fifth off the 19,875 positive tests reported this time last week in a sure-fire sign England's second nation-wide lockdown slowed the country's spiraling infection rate.more
European governments are announcing pandemic-related restrictions that will apply during Christmas. In Germany, family meetings of up to 10 people will be allowed, in Italy and Spain probably up to six, in Scotland up to eight.more
The six-week lockdown in Ireland will end next week, and the level of restrictions will be lowered from the fifth, the highest, to the third, the Irish government announced yesterday.more
It is forbidden to organize events and meetings until December 27th. The exceptions are meetings of up to 5 people, which take place, for example, at home. The limit does not apply to people who live together - it results from the regulation of the Council of Ministers, which entered into force today.more
