Hospitals in France are gearing up for the second wave of Covid-19 - stocking up on protective masks and increasing the number of beds in ICUs again. more
It is unlikely that the Covid-19 vaccine will become widely available by mid-2021, Germany's minister of education and research Anja Karliczek said at a press conference on Wednesday.more
Consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser, behind the Cillit Bang and Dettol brands, has raised its sales outlook, and said it had been boosted by high demand for cleaning products.more
The Italian government plans to extend the country's state of emergency, which allows it to rule by decree without needing parliamentary approval, despite fierce protests from opposition parties.more
Madrid's consumer association OCU has carried out a mask price analysis which shows that the average family in Spain has to spend more in a month on buying protective masks than on electricity.more
The British government has signed an agreement with the pharmaceutical companies Sanofi and GSK to purchase 60 million doses of a potential vaccine against the coronavirus jointly developed by them. This is the fourth such agreement, even though none of the vaccines have been tested yet.more
The Dutch government’s travel advice for the Barcelona metropolitan area has been changed to code orange, meaning all but essential travel to the area should be avoided, the foreign affairs ministry has announced.more
Tougher coronavirus restrictions are being introduced in Oldham to try and prevent a local lockdown after the borough saw a spike of more than 100 cases in a week.
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In Sweden, the coronavirus epidemic is retreating, we are going in the opposite direction from the rest of the world, where the number of infections is growing worryingly, the country's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell announced on Tuesday.more
High Street pasty seller Greggs has decided not to payout last year's dividend as the company prepares to preserve cash in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
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Europe appears to be at the beginning of a second coronavirus wave, UK prime minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday, after a number of countries on the continent started to reimpose lockdown restrictions following an uptick in cases.more
Belgium's prime minister on Monday put the brakes on the country's coronavirus exit plan, unveiling a set of drastic social distancing measures aimed at avoiding a new general lockdown amid a surge of COVID-19 infections.more
Quarantine for people arriving from Spain or other countries with high coronavirus levels could reportedly be cut to ten days under plans being looked at by ministers.
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Spain's hard-hit hotels had offered to pay for foreign tourists to take coronavirus tests, in an effort to lure back visitors worried by a fresh wave of cases and put off by Britain's sudden imposition of a two-week quarantine.more
Men aged 18 to 34 from ethnic minority groups were twice as likely to be fined for breaching lockdown coronavirus laws as young white men, figures show.more
Front-line health workers and senior clerics in Brazil are adding their voices to the chorus of alarm about President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the coronavirus pandemic.more
Further doubt has been cast on Britons’ hopes of taking overseas holidays this summer after the Foreign Office advised against all but essential trips to the popular Balearic and Canary Islands, and Downing Street warned that “no travel is risk-free” during the coronavirus pandemic.more
A cat has become the first animal in the UK to test positive for Covid-19, according to the UK's Chief Veterinary Officer. But there's good news -- the animal and its owners have now made a full recovery.more
Germany will make coronavirus tests mandatory for travellers returning from risk areas, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Monday, as fears rise that summer travel could spark a new surge in infections.
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The UK has updated its advice against all non-essential travel to Spain to include the Balearic and Canary Islands following a rise in coronavirus cases.more
Flanders-based pharmaceutical company Janssen Pharmaceutica has begun human testing of a vaccine prototype designed to protect against the coronavirus. The company hopes that the vaccine will be ready in the first half of next year.more
