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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

Growing numbers of cities are cancelling their Christmas markets. One of the most recent cities to abandon its plans is Manchester. more

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

UEFA says Bayern Munich will be able to play Atletico Madrid in the Champions League despite a positive coronavirus test for forward Serge Gnabry.more

The UK death toll from coronavirus rose by 241 on Tuesday – the highest daily reported rise since the first wave of the pandemic.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

Passengers flying from Heathrow to Hong Kong on Tuesday will be the first to have the option of paying for a rapid Covid test before checking in.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