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Health Minister Roberto Speranza said Italy must try to achieve herd immunity and therefore a mass anti-Covid vaccination "with persuasion".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

The head of the United States government’s coronavirus vaccine effort has said that the first doses of the drug will “hopefully” be administered by mid-December. 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

France has ordered the culling of one thousand minks after lab analyses detected a mutated version of the coronavirus in one farm.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

Compulsory mask on the slope, 50 percent of the seats in the roller coasters, the limit of skiers - such a plan for the ski season during the epidemic was developed by experts in Italy. It is intended to cover areas in the yellow and orange zones with lower risk of infection.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 drive-thru point where the tests to detect coronavirus infection will be performed, will be launched today at Wrocław Airport. It will be possible to perform the test there for a fee, without registration. The point will be operated by the Łukasiewicz - PORT research institute.more

A tougher three-tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in England when the lockdown ends on 2 December, Downing Street has said. Boris Johnson is expected to set out his plan - including details of how families can see different households at Christmas - to MPs on Monday.more

Mateusz Morawiecki presented yesterday an action plan for the near future, including the "responsibility phase" - from November 28 to December 27, and the "stabilization phase" - from December 28 at the earliest, if the number of cases drops. If Poland exceeds the average number of infections at 27,000, national quarantine seems possible.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

The annual G20 summit began yesterday in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. The main topic of the meeting is the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Russian President Vladimir Putin told G20 leaders that Russia is ready to provide Sputnik V vaccine to other countries.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

It comes amid calls for West End stores to be allowed to stay open until at least 11pm during December.more

Almost two-thirds of London boroughs have launched their own contact tracing platforms as confidence in the government’s Track and Trace app continues to plummet. 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

Lockdown and quarantine due to the pandemic changed the dream of Italians, and often worsened its quality as well - these are the results of research conducted at the University of Parma. There have been changes in the times of getting up and falling asleep. Many people also sleep longer during the day. 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

With three words, Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf captured the panic engulfing his country as it backflips on a controversial herd immunity strategy and coronavirus case numbers explode.more

Supermarkets are the most common places that people have visited in the days leading up to a positive coronavirus test reported to the Test and Trace app in England, new data suggests.more