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The United Kingdom recorded 2,919 new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to government data published on Thursday, compared with 2,659 a day earlier.more

The Madrid region has admitted that due to overcrowding of some hospitals, patients with Covid-19 are transferred to other facilities in this region of Spain. The number of patients transported was not given.more

With nearly 25,000 new cases in three days, and deteriorating indicators, the Covid-19 epidemic is accelerating in France. Despite this worrying context, the French government is considering shortening the quarantine to one-week isolation.more

Contrary to early reports, the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen is not associated with severe COVID-19 disease or death, according to a cohort study published yesterday in PLOS One.more

Police beefed up security at Berlin’s Charite hospital as Russian blogger Alexei Navalny, who is undergoing treatment there, is able to talk and probably remembers the details of what had happened before he fell unconscious in the plane, Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday citing its sources.more

A nationwide curfew could be introduced across Britain, forcing businesses to close from 10pm, according to reports.more

As many as 307 new cases of the coronavirus have been detected in the last 24 hours in Ireland, the highest number since mid-May, the country's health ministry said on Tuesday. There was also one death from Covid-19.more

AstraZeneca said it was working to review the event to ensure it would not result in a significant delay to the study. more

The government has announced emergency action to try and stem a feared autumn resurgence of coronavirus, tightening laws to ban virtually all gatherings of more than six people in England.more

Robert Jenrick, the UK's minister of housing, council and community affairs, has expressed "serious concern" about the next day as the number of new coronavirus infections is close to 3,000. The politician indicated that the government is currently preparing alternative rescue plans, which include limiting the maximum number of people who can stay together under one roof.more

Spain will have its first batch of three million Covid-19 vaccine doses in December, said health minister Salvador Illa on Monday.more

Kensington and Chelsea was today identified as the London borough most at risk of becoming a coronavirus “hotspot”.more

The first batch of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, developed by Russia's Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has been released into civil circulation, regional deliveries are planned in the nearest future, the Russian Health Ministry informs.more

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday (September 7) warned that coronavirus COVID-19 is not the last pandemic and the world must be better prepared for the next pandemic. The WHO chief said that countries must invest in public health to tackle the next pandemic in a better manner.more

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is out of a medically induced coma, the German hospital where he is being treated said in a statement on Monday.more

SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus tests are so sensitive that some of them may be false positive. This is due to the fact that fragments of a dead pathogen or a non-reproductive, i.e. inactive infection are detected, note British scientists from the University of Oxford.more

The rise in new coronavirus infections in the UK in recent days is worrying, but the situation has not spiraled out of control, Health Minister Matt Hancock assured today.more

Sweden has been ridiculed and criticized for its unique strategy to combat the coronavirus. Now all countries in Europe are following the Swedish model, but no one would dare to admit it, notes the daily Svenska Dagbladet.more

Australia expects to receive the first batch of the coronavirus vaccine in January 2021. The two variants of the vaccine developed by the British-Swedish AstraZeneca and Australian company CSL Ltd will be produced locally, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.more

In a tremendous demonstration of global collaboration, an international team led by clinician-scientists at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have pooled data from 121 hospitals in eight countries to find that inexpensive, widely available steroids improve the odds that very sick COVID-19 patients will survive the illness.more

A further 2,988 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, government data showed.more

The United Kingdom recorded 1,813 new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19, versus 1,940 on Friday, health officials said on Saturdaymore

A study involving nearly 500 people found that low vitamin D levels favored coronavirus infection. Scientists explain that this vitamin supports the work of the immune system.more

There are already 26.68 million people in the world infected with the coronavirus, 874 218 people have died from Covid-19. Infections appeared in 210 countries and territories, reports Reuters today. The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has estimated that the coronavirus vaccine will cost nearly EUR 10.more

Authorities in parts of the UK did not agree on Thursday on which countries should be removed from the list of where to come without quarantine, confusing British overseas.more