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Passengers on the subway or bus should avoid talking to other people, phone calls are also inadvisable, because despite the use of a mask, the risk of coronavirus infection is higher, warns the French Academy of Sciences.more

It may be necessary to vaccinate pets in the future to stop coronavirus from spreading back to humans, scientists have said.more

Getting your COVID-19 vaccination does not mean you can liberate yourself from lockdown or other restrictions. That is the warning from England's deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, who says the millions of people who have received their jab must still obey social-distancing rules.more

Careful research is needed to determine whether the British variant is more lethal. At this stage, providing such information is spreading fear - assessed Piotr Rzymski from the Medical University of Poznań.more

W Polsce wykryto tzw. brytyjska mutację koronawirusa, która charakteryzuje się wyższą zakaźnością. Fakt wykrycia zgłoszono już do międzynarodowego systemu raportowania sekwencji wirusa (GISAID).more

Researchers warn that depression, stress, and bad habits can adversely affect the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination. To prevent this from happening, they recommend exercise and good sleep.more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said new information could indicate that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is to be indicated by the cases of scientists from the center in autumn 2019.more

According to Swedish statistics, only one in 130 thousand children were treated in intensive care for COVID-19 between March 1 and June 30. Out of 15 children treated this way, 4 had other diseases.more

Vancouver-based company SaNOtize, co-founded by Israeli-Canadian scientist Dr. Gilly Regev, is launching its first clinical trial in the UK this week for a proposed antiviral nasal spray for use against COVID-19. The tests will begin on Monday at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey.more

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in the UK and South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the U.S. drugmaker.more

A “significant and foreseeable opportunity” to prepare the UK for a pandemic was missed by the government when it failed to anticipate that hundreds of thousands of people would need to be tested for a new and potentially deadly virus, a committee of MPs said on Friday.more

Will vaccination be able to achieve herd immunity in 2021? Or maybe it will fail? We should prepare for various hypothetical scenarios for the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and in the coming years, argues the COVID-19 team of the Polish Academy of Sciences.more

British pediatricians reassure that the emergence of a new variant of the coronavirus has not increased severe cases of COVID-19 in children. The elderly are still more at risk.more

People receiving jabs should avoid drinking alcohol because it alters the make-up of microorganisms in the gut that help stop bacteria and viruses getting through, according to Immunologist Professor Sheena Cruickshank.more

The surface of lakes is shrinking all over the world due to climate change. An example is the Caspian Sea, the largest lake in the world, which is shrinking rapidly, scientists write in "Communications Earth & Environment".more

After what we have gone through, I will be happy if 2021 will be the time when we will defeat the pandemic - admits Professor Maciej Banach, director of the Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute in Łódź.more

"We have not yet solidified after the news about the British variant of SARS-CoV-2 known as B.1.1.7, and we are already hearing about others - this time in South Africa and Italy. However, this is no reason to be hysterical" - says Piotr Rzymski from the Medical University of Poznań.more

According to Italian doctors, Italy has recorded its first case of new coronavirus strain detected in Britain , Report mentions, citing La Republica.more

The social epidemiologist predicts a surge in 'sexual licentiousness' and a 'reverse of religiosity'.more

Two French psychoanalysts, authors of numerous publications, Didier Lauru and Jean-Jacques Moscovitz, answered the questions about the traces that a pandemic may leave in the psyche of people. Lauru points out that in particular, the inability to say goodbye to the dying can cause a longer trauma. Moscovitz predicts that the pandemic will increase the "resourcefulness" of the younger generation.more

There is now emotional ambivalence in society, which consists in the fact that fear fights disregard, social psychologist Prof. Zbigniew Nęcki. He also noted, among others that social media will never replace live contact.more

Virologist at the Berlin clinic Charite Christian Drosten has expressed concern about the new strain of coronavirus. He noted that the number of people infected with VUI-202012/01 only increased in areas where the overall prevalence of the coronavirus was high or increasing.more

Once upon a time people were perfectly aware of the meaning of particular props, dishes, and gestures; everything had a magical and symbolic dimension. Today, many traditions persist, but knowledge about them is missing - says ethnologist Dr. Grzegorz Odoj from the Silesian University.more

The course of COVID-19, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, is more severe than that of the seasonal flu, according to the analysis of data on over 130,000 hospitalized patients, published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine.more

Britons should be "very concerned" about the mutated strain of COVID-19 that is circulating in London and the South East, Professor Andrew Hayward of the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) said.more