South Yorkshire will face the toughest Covid rules from Saturday, the mayor for the Sheffield City Region has said. Labour Mayor Dan Jarvis said the move to tier three followed "extensive discussions" with ministers. The new restrictions will apply to all four local authority areas in South Yorkshire - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.more
Laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in another 10,040 people - the highest number since the pandemic began. 130 more people have also died, the health ministry said today. The most infections were recorded in the province Lesser Poland - 1,315.more
The study draws on sociological accounts of network diffusion and shows that countries that are heavily exposed to international travel and tourism - such as France, Italy, and the USA - recorded significantly higher numbers of deaths.more
In Ireland, 13 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the last 24 hours, the highest number since mid-May and 1,269 coronavirus infections were detected, the country's health ministry said yesterday.more
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte told a press conference after talks with Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez in Rome Tuesday that "our countries are going through a moment of particular difficulty, critical situations: we want to show that by respecting the rules and precautions laid down, life, also political life, can continue".more
A coronavirus vaccine is "unlikely" to completely stop infections and the disease might never fully disappear, the government's chief scientific adviser has said.more
Greater Manchester will move to England's highest tier of coronavirus restrictions from Friday at 00:01 BST, the prime minister has announced. Speaking at No 10, Boris Johnson said "not to act now" would put the lives of Manchester's residents "at risk".more
A Polish scientist is part of a group of scientists who have successfully isolated the Italian coronavirus strain. Professor Maciej Tarkowski, a doctor and biologist, has been working with researchers under the leadership of Professor Massimo Gallu at Milan's Sacco Hospital since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.more
Uefa, European soccer’s governing body, is cutting prize money for its club competitions for the next five years after incurring losses from Covid-19, according to The Times.more
British scientists are preparing to launch a study in which healthy volunteers will be deliberately infected with the coronavirus, which is expected to speed up vaccine development, said Tuesday.more
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 are now more likely to survive than they were a few months ago, a UK study found. First of all, the percentage of deaths in intensive care units decreased.more
Lawyers believe that the more reliable the legislation would be, the less cases related to, for example, wearing masks would be brought to the courts - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more
Italy’s northern Lombardy region prepared Tuesday to impose a nighttime curfew, the most restrictive anti-coronavirus measure the country has seen since emerging from a national lockdown in the spring.more
A further 18,804 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK, and 80 new deaths have been reported. It takes the total case numbers to 741,212 and the total number of deaths, according to the government, to 43,726.more
Donald Trump has once again attacked his top public health expert, using a call with campaign staff on Monday to deride Anthony Fauci as “a disaster” and to claim “people are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots” discuss ways to combat the coronavirus.more
Visitors only wearing masks and strict visitor limits - probably under these conditions, traditional Christmas markets will be able to start in the German capital in six weeks, informs the Berliner Morgenpost.more
61 percent Poles believe that they currently have the same or more money than before the pandemic - according to a study by the Chamber of Fund and Asset Managers (IZFIA) and the Department of Consumer Behavior Research at the Warsaw School of Economics.more
Belgian health minister Frank Vandenbroucke warned that the pandemic situation in the country, especially in Wallonia and Brussels, is the most dangerous in Europe. "We are really close to a tsunami" - indicated the head of the health ministry.more
The announcement of the yellow zone across the country has frozen tourism. In the first week after the announcement of the restrictions, the number of bookings fell by more than 40% compared to the end of September - according to the report of the Noclegi.pl platform. The mood in the industry is getting worse.more
