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Nearly a third of people who arrived in England and Northern Ireland at a time when the Delta variant of the coronavirus was becoming dominant may have broken quarantine rules, the BBC said.more

As of today, in Sydney, Australia, those who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can meet outdoors in groups of up to five. All of Australia is going through the largest wave of epidemics to date, with strict lockdown in many areas.more

The maternity unit in Lewis County, New York this month suspends delivering deliveries after the resignation of some staff who chose to dismiss rather than undergo compulsory immunization against Covid-19.more

Sajid Javid has told Sky News he is "concerned" that the UK could witness a bad flu season due to there being "a lot less immunity" around to the virus because of the COVID restrictions that were in place last winter.more

Israel is making preparations to ensure it has sufficient vaccine supply in case a fourth round of Covid-19 shots is needed, the country’s top health official said on Sunday. more

A second referendum on Scottish independence will not be held until all day-to-day Covid restrictions have been lifted, Nicola Sturgeon has said.more

Fewer small and medium-sized enterprises complaining of lower turnover than before the pandemic; the biggest change for the better was recorded by service and trade companies - according to a study for the BIG InfoMonitor Debtors Register.more

U.S. adults who got the vaccine between December 2020 and March 2021 experienced a 4% reduction in their risk of being mildly depressed and a 15% drop in their risk of severe depression, researchers reported Sept. 8 in the journal PLOS ONE.more

Health secretary Sajid Javid has ruled out plans for vaccine passports and has said he can't see how the UK will be forced into another COVID-19 lockdown.more

The UK economy grew by just 0.1% in July as the last Covid restrictions were lifted in England. It was the economy's sixth consecutive month of growth, but the increase was much lower than in the previous month, which saw 1% growth.more

More than 120,000 people demonstrated across France on Saturday, according to official figures, to protest the coronavirus health passes they say discriminate against the unvaccinated.more

An in vitro study of drugs already approved by the regulatory authority in the United States to treat a range of conditions, has shown eight of them are also effective in slowing SARS-CoV-2 replication in infected human cells.more

The risk of dying from Covid-19 is 11 times higher in unvaccinated than in vaccinated people, and the risk of being hospitalized is 10 times higher, according to a study published yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).more

Offers of fake EU covid certificates or negative coronavirus test appear online on local classifieds websites. It is enough to pay PLN 250 to - according to the offerors - be entered into the Patient Online Account as vaccinated with a preparation from Johnson & Johnson.more

The American company Moderna is working on a single injection formulation that will be an experimental flu vaccine that will also contain a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.more

Boris Johnson is set to publish a Covid blueprint to prepare for a “difficult time” this winter, with jabs for younger teenagers, a booster programme, flu shots and vaccine passports all expected to be part of the measures. more

In Denmark, the coronavirus restrictions that have been in place for 18 months have been lifted today. The reason for full opening is to vaccinate 73 percent. society and recognizing that "the pandemic is under control".more

The Italian Medicines Agency has agreed to start administering the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to the first groups of the population, health minister Roberto Speranza announced yesterday. He explained that those with the weakest immunity would receive it first.more

The European Union has decided to remove Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Japan and Serbia from the EU's "safe travel" list, meaning their nationals will be subject to tighter controls on Covid-19 at the EU's borders.more

One in eight cases of coronavirus infection happened at school, according to the Trouw journal. With the opening of the schools in September, they immediately became the hotspots for the spread of SARS-CoV-2.more

Anti-vaxxers have put up posters booby-trapped with razor blades on the London transport network.more

Doctors and nurses will get a “substantial grace period” to get the Covid-19 jab or risk losing their job under Government plans, a minister has said.more

The Portuguese authorities vaccinated against Covid-19 the largest number of people in the European Union in terms of the number of the country's population, according to the data of the local health ministry.more

The authorities of Scotland, Austria, Bulgaria and Greece announced the introduction of new restrictions related to the increase in infections on their territory. On the other hand, the coronaviruses that have been in force so far in Ireland and Sweden will be gradually lifted. In Portugal, from Sunday, you will not need to wear face masks in the open air.more

In the beginning, the coronavirus was like a "Neanderthal", but "the Delta variant is like a Rambo armed to the teeth" - this is how Italian virologist Professor Ilaria Capua described it. In her opinion, this fall the number of infections will be lower than in 2020.more