The world heard about the hundred-year-old war hero Tom Moorze in April this year. Thanks to his charity campaign, an online fundraiser managed to raise nearly £ 39 million for the NHS. For his feat, Moore was awarded the title of Knight Knight by Queen Elizabeth II in July, and a biopic will now be made about him.more
Belgian authorities announced an easing of coronavirus prevention measures Wednesday, including no longer mandating masks in most outdoor places, despite a rising number of infections in the country.more
oland reported 1,136 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to the Health Ministry's Twitter account, the highest daily increase since the pandemic began.more
Germany warned against travel to France and most of the neighbouring Czech Republic following a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.more
Keir Starmer tonight blamed Boris Johnson for letting down the British people over the coronavirus crisis. In a rare televised address to the nation, the Labour leader slammed the “failure of government” since the pandemic erupted.more
Rishi Sunak has scrapped his plan for an autumn budget and will announce fresh measures to halt job losses and business failures on Thursday amid government fears that a second wave of Covid-19 threatens Britain with a double-dip recession.more
The Netherlands has seen another record number of confirmed coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours - 2,357 - the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said yesterday.more
Britain is not taking a Swedish approach to COVID-19 said foreign minister Dominic Raab when asked if new measures were part of a plan to live with the virus, rather than try to get rid of it.more
Wizz Air low-cost airline has launched a new pandemic travel planning tool. A specially prepared interactive map allows you to easily check the quarantine rules and the expected restrictions in each country the carrier flies to.more
Contrary to what is believed, vaccination against tuberculosis (BCG) in infancy does not protect against COVID-19, scientists from the University of California. They described their conclusions in "Clinical Infectious Diseases".more
To keep customers safe amid the rise in coronavirus cases, supermarkets have re-evaluated their rules and some have announced a comeback of restrictions.more
Spain's Health Minister Salvador Illa announced yesterday that the government has struck an agreement with the authorities of 17 Autonomous Communities to cut Covid-19 forced isolation from 14 days to 10 days for those who have come into contact with infected people.more
West Ham manager David Moyes and Hammers players Issa Diop and Josh Cullen have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.more
Research from Public Health England looking at Covid-19 illness between January and April among nearly 20,000 hospital patients suggests risk of death is more than doubled for people who catch flu on top of coronavirus, compared to coronavirus alone.more
Britain on Tuesday reported 4,926 new cases of COVID-19, compared to 4,368 the day before, government data showed, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced rougher restrictions in light of a spike in cases.more
The number of coronavirus infections in Stockholm is growing again, the authorities of the region including the capital of Sweden informed yesterday. The country's chief epidemiologist does not rule out introducing additional restrictions.more
The European Union has postponed its summit for a week because EU Council President Charles Michel has gone into quarantine after a close collaborator was diagnosed with Covid-19. Spokesman Barend Leyts said Mr Michel “today learned that a security officer, with whom he was in close contact early last week, tested positive for Covid”.more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on the public to "summon the discipline and the resolve" to follow the new coronavirus rules announced on Tuesday. In a television broadcast to the country he warned the government may go further if people do not stick to them.more
The UK is at a “perilous turning point” and must act, Boris Johnson has told MPs, announcing new restrictions for England including slashing the size of wedding celebrations and bans on indoor team sports, as well as a return to home working.more
A curfew on hospitality venues and mandatory face masks in more public spaces are among proposed new measures from London leaders, Sadiq Khan has said.more
According to CBOS estimates, 54 percent. Poles express the opinion that wearing the mask may lead to health problems. The analysts summarize the alarm that many people on the Vistula do not know for what purpose the mask is put on and wrongly think that its purpose is to protect against infection.more
The UK's Covid-19 alert level should be increased to level 4, meaning transmission of the virus is “high or rising exponentially”, the chief medical officers of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have said.more
