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Money, free pool and beach tickets and tomato sauce can be obtained in Italy as a reward for immunization against Covid-19.more

Almost half of Britons have cut back on their socialising over fears they could fall victim to the 'pingdemic', a survey has found. Some 46 per cent of people said they reduced their contact with others because of the risk of being 'pinged' by the NHS' Covid app and being forced into self-isolation.more

Germany's government wants to start promoting COVID vaccinations for 12- to 17-year-olds, according to a draft plan. Giving the jab to this age group would go further than guidance from the country's vaccine regulator.more

Some venues have started telling customers they need a vaccine passport if they want to get in.more

People who have been fully vaccinated in the US or European Union no longer have to isolate when arriving in the UK from an amber list country. The rule change came into effect across the country at 04:00 BST on Monday.more

The nation's top infectious diseases expert said Sunday he did not expect the U.S. will need to reenter lockdown, as the Delta strain of the coronavirus drives surges in new cases across the country.more

More than 68% of 18 to 29-year-olds in England have had a first jab, while 88.6% of all UK adults have had one. In total, over 85 million doses have now been administered across the UK. More than 72.5% of UK adults have received two doses so far.more

‘Many thousands’ face losing their jobs as the Government’s furlough scheme is wound down again from today.One in five firms plan to make staff redundant as financial support ebbs away, according to the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC).more

Vaccinated Israelis who go on to contract the coronavirus experience it more mildly but can still suffer from so-called “long COVID” in significant numbers, a study published Wednesday suggests.more

Young people will be offered discounted takeaways and taxi rides to get their Covid jabs in a bid to boost vaccine uptake, the government has said. Food delivery and taxi-hailing firms including Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims will offer incentives to people to get vaccinated.more

The human tests of the Spanish vaccine against Covid that the Spanish researcher’s team is developing Mariano Esteban at the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) together with Biofabri have been postponed.more

YouTube pranksters have released a video in which they reveal that high-profile anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn accepted a donation of £10,000 while being urged to stop campaigning against the AstraZeneca jab.more

The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has approved that all unvaccinated persons and those who have not recovered from the COVID-19 disease entering or travelling back to the country will be subject to the testing requirement.more

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England's chief midwife has stepped up her call for pregnant women to get the Covid jab as soon as possible. Estimates based on GP records and Public Health England data suggest hundreds of thousands have not had the jab, as the number of mums-to-be in hospital with the virus rises.more

The hybrid working model will become the new standard for about half of employees and will have a significant impact on how companies operate, according to Goldman Sachs economists.more

With many people complaining about brain fog, attention problems and confusion after COVID-19, researchers are exploring whether infections could have long-term consequences for the brain.more

Relaxing restrictions like mask-wearing and social distancing when most people have been vaccinated greatly increases the risk of vaccine-resistant variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, new research showed.more

One in seven shops in Britain are vacant with fashion retail premises in shopping centres the hardest hit of all by repeated lockdowns, the British Retail Consortium said today.more

Italian police had broken up a number of online schemes offering to sell fake European Union digital COVID-19 status certificates or purported coronavirus vaccines.more

In the last 24 hours in the UK, 29,622 coronavirus infections were detected and 65 deaths due to Covid-19. These numbers indicate that the third wave of the epidemic may be stabilizing, but experts are also paying attention to other data.more

Anyone entering Germany who has not been fully vaccinated will have to provide a negative Covid test under new rules that could be in place as early as August 1st, according to the daily "Bild". more

Covid vaccine passports have effectively been introduced for users of the NHS app in England via a change to the app’s features.more

University students will get "advance warning" if they are required to have vaccines before moving to halls of residence, Dominic Raab has said.more

The Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia are marked red on the map of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as high-risk areas for coronavirus infections. In Italy, another significant increase in the number of infections was recorded.more