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Thousands of new London cases as variant spreads at breakneck speed.more

The Omicron variant now accounts for more than 20 per cent of all coronavirus infections in England, and in London it is already 44 per cent and will become the dominant variant there in the next 48 hours, UK health minister Sajid Javid announced yesterday.more

A second study confirmed on Monday that two doses of AstraZeneca or Pfizer offers little protection against getting infected with Omicron – and in some cases none at all.more

New Zealand's health ministry is investigating the case of a man who took 10 doses of Covid-19 vaccine in one day by impersonating other people, national public radio RNZ reported. The man was most likely receiving money from the people on whose behalf he was vaccinating.more

The NHS will have to postpone some planned appointments to meet the target of giving every adult in England a booster jab by the end of the year. more

There is again a "race between the virus and the vaccine" as the Omikron variant spreads in the UK, Health Minister Sajid Javid warned today. He reported that around 10 people are in hospitals because of the new variant.more

All UK adults are expected to have a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in a speech to the nation yesterday evening.more

The threat level of coronavirus in the UK has been raised to four on a five-point scale due to the spread of the Omikron variant, it was reported yesterday.more

The pandemic has caused serious mental health problems for people around the world, and Poland and Spain are among the countries that have suffered the most in this regard.more

"It is worth vaccinating children, because it is not true that children always go through COVID-19 gently" - said the president of Warsaw Family Physicians, Dr. Michał Sutkowski. He added that there are definitely more children in hospitals than there were in previous waves.more

Another 633 cases of the Omikron variant have been confirmed in the UK, which means another day with a record increase, the British Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) reported yesterday. There are already 1,898 of them in total.more

The Omicron variant is spreading faster and faster in the Netherlands, and the process is difficult to control, alarms the National Institute of Public Health (RIVM), which has already confirmed nearly eighty infections with this coronavirus variant.more

COVID-19 cases are sweeping Europe once again — here is a breakdown of how each country has reacted to the surge. It comes amid the emergence of the new Omicron variant, first detected in South Africa.more

Omicron could cause between 25,000 and 75,000 deaths in England over the next five months without tougher Covid restrictions, experts have told the government.more

Poland’s health minister on Tuesday announced a spate of new coronavirus restrictions in response to a persistently high daily number of infections and the threat from the new, highly transmissible strain of the virus, omicron. more

Having two doses of a Covid vaccine offers less defence against symptomatic infection from the Omicron variant than with Delta, experts have said, although a booster jab raises protection considerably.more

Polish children, aged 5-11, can receive their first Covid-19 vaccine shots from December 16, a Health Ministry spokesman has said.more

In Spain, the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded 305 per 100,000 citizens, putting the country today at a level of high health risk not seen since August this year.more

The UK has recorded the highest number of daily Covid-19 cases in almost a year. Cases have surged with a further 58,194 lab-confirmed cases of the virus as of 9am on Friday (December 10), the Government said.more

Reservations for Christmas Eve soirees are being cancelled in restaurants in the Netherlands, reports daily De Telegraaf. Until December 18, restaurants in the country must close at 5pm, but the government has repeatedly hinted that the evening lockdown will be extended.more

Over the course of the pandemic, we’ve written some headlines that we’d never have expected to write. more

Scotland is facing a "tsunami" of Omicron infections, which is likely to displace Delta as the dominant variant of the coronavirus within days, the local government's chief executive Nicola Sturgeon warned today. As a result, she announced new, stricter quarantine rules.more

The Government is already working on ‘Plan C’ restrictions that could be introduced in the New Year if Omicron cases continue to surge, according to reports. more

71 percent of Poles surveyed assess the living conditions in Poland as harmful to mental health. Only 17 percent of Poles have the opposite opinion, according to the CBOS survey "Mental health of Poles".more

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Länder prime ministers are not ruling out the possibility of adopting further tightened regulations before Christmas to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, but no new decisions were taken at yesterday's meeting.more