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The pandemic has exacerbated the problem of the doctor deficit. Employment agencies can attract thousands of specialists from the East, as long as barriers to their work in Poland disappear - writes today's Rzeczpospolita.more

A futher 1,066 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland, the Department of Health has said yesterday evening.more

Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic faces calls for a six-month prison sentence in his native Serbia for allegedly breaking quarantine rules earlier this year, as per Marca, who report Serbian outlet Tanjug.more

The European Union is set to cut Canada, Georgia and Tunisia from a “white list” of countries from which travelers can visit the bloc without COVID-related restrictions such as quarantines or mandatory tests, while adding Singapore.more

French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced a vast extension of the nightly curfew that is intended to curb the spiraling spread of the coronavirus, saying "the second wave is here".more

For now, what we want to do is "almost lockdown" - said the Prime Minister's chief advisor for the fight against COVID-19, Prof. Andrzej Horban. He announced that people after the age of 70 will be asked to stay indoors and not leave unless necessary. He confirmed that further restrictions on the operation of the catering industry are planned.more

Elderly people in Sweden no longer need to isolate themselves, the government said on Thursday, pointing to lower Covid infection rates than in spring and a growing toll on the mental health of its elderly as behind the new recommendation. more

The UK has recorded another 21,242 COVID-19 cases, government figures show. It's a drop from Wednesday's record number of 26,688.more

The British government has today significantly expanded financial aid to companies suffering from the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak, especially in areas with additional restrictions.more

In a press release published today, the Institute coordinating the fight against infectious diseases in Germany Robert Koch (RKI) extended the coronavirus danger zone to the entire territory of Poland, the visit of which entails the possibility of being quarantined.more

Some 12 million people in Britain are likely to struggle with bills and loan repayments as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak economic havoc, a Financial Conduct Authority survey tracking consumer financial resilience showed on Thursday.more

Until mid-March next year, as much as 54 percent. population will already undergo coronavirus infection - according to experts' forecasts. They claim that 1.6 million people have already had COVID-19, reports "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

One in 10 people had experienced suicidal thoughts by the end of the first six weeks of lockdown, according to new research.more

Italy is in a phase of "full epidemic expansion", Massimo Andreoni, the scientific director of the national association of physicians of infectious and tropical diseases, said yesterday. This is how he commented on the daily increase in the number of infections by over 15,000 recorded that day.more

Half of Poles do not want cemeteries to be closed for the upcoming All Saints Day. And neither does the government. 43 percent Poles also want schools to work in a hybrid mode - reports today's "Gazeta Wyborcza".more

Spain is the first Western European country in which the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded one million since the beginning of the epidemic, the health ministry said yesterday. In the last 24 hours, the number of detected infections increased there by 16,973, to 1,005,295.more

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

Another 26,688 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK - the highest daily figure to date.more

UK government borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued its heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, the Treasury scrapped a three-year spending review. The figure was £28.4bn more than last year and the third highest in any month since records began in 1993, the Office for National Statistics said.more

Brushing your teeth whenever you leave your home may help ward off Covid-19, a dentistry professor has claimed.more

The virus did not become more dangerous, people started to downplay it - assessed Dr. Piotr Rzymski from the Medical University of Poznań. "Observing the situation in Poland and the dynamics of its changes, I have the impression that the health care system is getting closer and closer to the wall" - he added.more

Sir Keir Starmer has urged Boris Johnson to drop his “corrosive” Covid-19 strategy pitting regions against each other and implement a circuit-breaker lockdown from Friday.more

Boris Johnson came under growing pressure to end the 10pm curfew on restaurants in London today, as business leaders and Mayor Sadiq Khan branded it “nonsensical” following the ban on household mixing in hospitality settings.more

DOSB President Alfons Hörmann believes that the Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo, but considers an exclusion of spectators from other countries to be conceivable.more

Waitrose and the Co-op are cutting prices on hundreds of essential goods this week as supermarkets prepare to battle it out for customers ahead of a budget Christmas season. more