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The coronavirus vaccine will be made available to music lovers at this year's Reading and Leeds festivals, NHS England has said.more

Canada and Denmark are among seven countries moving to the green list in the latest changes to Covid restrictions. Thailand and Montenegro are being added to the UK government's red list - meaning they are considered to be among the highest-risk destinations.more

38,281 coronavirus infections were detected in the UK in the last 24 hours, the highest number since July 22, it was reported yesterday. 140 deaths were also recorded due to Covid-19.more

Bargain hunters face slim pickings this Black Friday as many retailers will be forced to ignore the annual fire-sale completely. In the face of rocketing shipping costs, major delays to orders and a nationwide lorry driver shortage, shops face too many challenges to complete the stocking and restocking necessary for the late-November event.more

NHS organisations in England have been told to prepare for a possible extension of the Covid vaccination programme to all 12 to 15-year-olds. more

The number of holidaymakers in Portugal is over 50 percent during this holiday season. lower than during the last holidays before the pandemic - according to data from the government of Antonio Costa, as well as estimates of entrepreneurs in the tourism sector.more

The second dose of Janssen's COVID-19 vaccine resulted in a rapid and significant increase in binding antibodies levels, Johnson & Johnson said, revealing preliminary research findings in this regard.more

The U.S. and British media report that the U.S. intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus does not provide definitive conclusions and does not explain whether the virus passed to humans from animals, or whether it came from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic broke out.more

The protection provided by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines starts to wane within six months, new research suggests.more

More than 5,700 coronavirus infections have been linked to two UK music festivals, one of which was part of a government pilot to see how to safely resume mass events.more

The Delta coronovirus variant is increasingly breaking immunity in vaccinated people, and in Los Angeles, every fourth infected person was fully vaccinated, reports the CDC in Atlanta. However, nearly three-quarters of COVID-19 patients were not vaccinated at all.more

The number of young adults who smoke in England rose by about a quarter in the first lockdown, research has suggested.more

Some European countries are still not accepting the NHS Covid pass due to a delay in the UK linking up with the European Union’s system, it has been revealed.more

Britain’s economy has been plunged into a supply chain crisis, with major retailers’ stock levels at their the lowest since 1983 as a result of worker shortages and transport disruption caused by Covid and Brexit. more

A study of over 1 million British people found that the effectiveness of both Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines is declining. However, vaccinations are still the best protection against SARS-CoV-2, British specialists assure.more

Scotland will establish its own judge-led public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by the end of the year, adding to pressure on the UK, Welsh and Northern Irish governments to “show leadership”, according to relatives who lost loved ones to the virus.more

France’s national health body has backed plans for coronavirus vaccine booster jabs for people aged 65 and older.more

English Premier League clubs will not release players for international matches played in so-called “red-list” countries next month.more

Over the past 24 hours, the UK has registered 174 deaths from Covid-19, the highest number since March 12, and detected 30.8 thousand coronavirus infections - reported yesterday.more

The US President's medical advisor, Dr.Anthony Fauci, has said in several television interviews that if the vast majority of Americans who have not yet vaccinated are vaccinated, the coronavirus pandemic will be under control in that country by spring 2022.more

U.S. President Joe Biden called on private companies to mandate Covid-19 vaccination for their employees after the government's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully approved Pfizer's vaccine.more

"We do not rely on the opinions of politicians and businessmen, but on the opinions of doctors and scientists. At the moment there is no recommendation regarding the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. However, it cannot be ruled out that such indications will appear" - said the head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Michał Dworczyk.more

The UK has ordered 35 million more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which will be delivered in the second half of 2022. more

Hundreds of anti-vaccine protesters have stormed a building containing the headquarters of ITN, the company that produces ITV news and Channel 4 News, in central London. Footage shared on social media showed people gathering inside the building on Grays Inn Road on Monday, while police were seen outside the building.more

India's drug regulator has approved the world's first DNA vaccine against Covid-19 for emergency use. The three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine prevented symptomatic disease in 66% of those vaccinated, according to an interim study quoted by the vaccine maker Cadila Healthcare.more