This Saturday, Sunday, November 1, and on Monday, the cemeteries will be closed, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced today. We do not want to make a lot of people gather in cemeteries and in public transport - he emphasized.more
The pandemic situation in Italy is "dramatic" in some respects, "the coronavirus has regained its strength," said government sanitary crisis commissioner Domenico Arcuri yesterday. He called on the Italians to only move when necessary.more
Up to 10% of England’s population could be tested for coronavirus every week after government officials asked local health chiefs to deploy 30-minute saliva kits in an acceleration of Boris Johnson’s controversial “Operation Moonshot” mass screening plan.more
The Spanish parliament on Thursday approved the extension for six months of a state of emergency declared to fight a surge in coronavirus infections.more
Nicola Sturgeon today admitted she cannot rule out imposing nationwide coronavirus restrictions on Scotland 'in the next few weeks' as she unveiled her new five-tier plan for local lockdowns. more
The 53-country region that makes up Europe under the umbrella of the World Health Organization (WHO) said it reached a record of confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1.5 million new infections last week, the organization's European director said Thursday.more
Millions more people in England are to move to tier two restrictions from Saturday, the government has announced. Residents in areas of Yorkshire and the Humber, parts of the West and East Midlands, as well as Luton and Oxford City will come under stricter measures.more
"With the Government’s furlough scheme coming to an end this weekend, it will increase the huge anxieties faced by many workers across the capita" - Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said.more
Due to the growing number of coronavirus infections, there will be no Holy Mass this year in Poland. and processions in cemeteries. According to the decrees issued by the bishops in the individual dioceses, the eucharist will be celebrated in the churches.more
The probability of extending the scale of restrictions is increasing. Not only because the number of new infections is increasing, but also due to the consideration of introducing a full lockdown abroad, informs Dziennik Gazeta Prawna on Thursday.more
Britain will do everything it can to avoid ordering a second national COVID-19 lockdown because it believes it will do more harm than good to the country, a minister said on Thursday.more
A "health base" is set to be established at the Athletes' Village for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in case of potential COVID-19 infection.more
Further, daily records of infections are set. The peak of this pandemic wave is forecast at the end of November, and the number of places and respirators in hospitals is decreasing, Rzeczpospolita reports on Thursday.more
The three different Coronavirus contact tracing apps used in the United Kingdom, plan to begin sharing data soon, in an effort to halt the spread of the global pandemic.more
The Bundesliga will have to play without fans again after the tentative return of spectators was cut short due to rising coronavirus infections in Germany.more
Scientists say the Oxford vaccine appears to create a "strong" immune response in elderly participants, amid cautious hopes that the candidate could be rolled out in the coming months.more
Another 24,701 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK while 310 have died, according to the latest government data. This is an increase of 1,816 infections compared with Tuesday's figures - although the number of deaths dropped by 57 compared with the 367 recorded on Tuesday, which was the highest daily number since May.more
