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If the willingness of Poles to take the COVID-19 preparation does not increase, the vaccination campaign will almost stop within two or three weeks - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" warns.more

Supermarket shoppers will get the choice to wear a face mask or not from July 19, as all the UK's big grocery stores say they'll leave it up to us to decide. more

Tony Holohan and Ronan Glynn have been subjected to “menacing and threatening” phone calls , which are now under garda investigation, the Sunday Independent can reveal.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends more than a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England on Monday, urging the public to remain cautious but putting his faith in vaccines to protect the country even as infections are surging.more

The Australian government has cancelled Katie Hopkins’ visa after the far-right commentator boasted about breaching hotel quarantine conditions.more

Covid cases could hit 200,000 a day in the UK this year and cause “major disruption” to the NHS, according to the scientist whose initial modelling helped shape Britain’s coronavirus lockdown strategy. more

All UK adults have been offered a first dose of a COVID vaccine - hitting the prime minister's target just ahead of schedule, the government has announced. more

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been forced into a U-turn and will self-isolate after coming into contact with the health secretary, who has contracted Covid-19.more

France should consider introducing mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 for the entire population, the High Authority of Health (HAS) reported.more

The UK has recorded 54,674 new coronavirus cases and 41 deaths in the latest 24-hour period. The figure is a rise on Friday's 51,870 cases, which was the highest since mid-January. Some 49 deaths were also reported on Friday.more

European Union leaders on Saturday celebrated their coronavirus vaccination programme reaching a higher proportion of its people than in the US, which had outpaced the bloc for months. more

Coronavirus-related restrictions could be reintroduced if the scale of infections in the country rises to a level that is deemed "unacceptable," government attorney Lucy Frazer said.more

Health Secretary Sajid Javid says he has tested positive for Covid-19 and is suffering "very mild" symptoms. Mr Javid, who said he had received both vaccine doses, took a lateral flow test on Saturday morning after feeling a "bit groggy" on Friday night and it came back positive.more

The highly transmissible delta variant is now the most dominant COVID-19 strain in New York City, soaring from about a quarter of tested positive samples to more than 40% in a week as the five boroughs' rolling seven-day case average surged 62%, according to new health department data out Friday. more

Fully vaccinated people returning to England from France will still be required to stay in a 10-day quarantine, although from Monday for all other countries returning from the so-called there will be no yellow list of such an obligation, the British government announced yesterday.more

In Greece, new restrictions entered into force yesterday due to the fact that the country is struggling with an increase in the number of coronavirus infections. Only people with vaccination certificates may be served inside restaurants, bars and cafes. The new rule does not apply to outdoor spaces.more

Serious organ damage after COVID-19 occurs in young people, as do hospitalized patients in their 50s, a UK study suggests. These observations, published by the medical journal Lancet, argue that young people should also be vaccinated against COVID-19.more

More than half a million people were notified in the first week of July in England and Wales by an app that they had been in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus and should isolate themselves. The growing number of absences caused by this is a growing problem for employers.more

Coronavirus restrictions meant that many respiratory viruses were not able to spread last winter as they normally would, leading some virologists to fear population immunity to such illnesses might now be compromised. more

The European Commission yesterday approved the national plan for the recovery of Ireland after the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a step towards paying the country € 989 million in grants under the Reconstruction and Resilience Fund between 2021 and 2026.more

As many as 51,870 coronavirus infections were detected in the past 24 hours in Great Britain, which is the highest balance since January 15, the government announced yesterday. There have also been 49 deaths related to Covid-19.more

In over 40 percent. People recovering from COVID-19 show symptoms three months after being infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to a study by Portuguese virologists at Sao Joao Hospital in Porto.more

Coronavirus outbreaks have already been detected on both British aircraft carriers. Two days after it was confirmed that there were about 100 infections on HMS Queen Elizabeth, it turned out that the coronavirus was present on HMS Prince of Wales, the Sun reported yesterday evening.more

Hundreds of thousands of people are being urged to bring forward their second coronavirus vaccine dose. It is part of an effort to get as many people fully-vaccinated as possible before restrictions are eased in England on 19 July.more

City suburbs, commuter towns and coastal locations have recorded the biggest rises in rent for tenants in the last year, according to Rightmove.more