Paradoxically, the Delta variant of the coronavirus confirms the effectiveness of the vaccination program, mainly the unvaccinated die, the expert of the Supreme Medical Council in Poland said.more
Matt Hancock has resigned as health secretary after he breached social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. In a letter to the PM he said the government "owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down".more
Since the beginning of the year, more than 650 Polish citizens have not been able to leave the country because of using an invalid document and violating the quarantine rules, the Border Guard informed.more
The virus that causes Covid-19 began spreading in China most likely as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the city of Wuhan, new research published yesterday by the British University of Kent showed.more
The stricter quarantine rules from Thursday apply after entry to Poland from countries outside the Schengen Area or from outside the EU - results from the provision of the regulation specified by the government yesterday. The government also expanded the catalog of people released from entry quarantine.more
Iceland will be the first country in Europe to lift all its Covid-19 restrictions as it is set to scrap face masks and social distancing, the country's health minister said today. The North Atlantic country will lift all its domestic restrictions on Saturday in accordance with recommendations made by Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason.more
Only 28 coronavirus infections were registered after nine pilot events involving over 58,000 people. The aim was to see how it is safe to go back to organizing mass events, the British government announced yesterday.more
The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that people most vulnerable to COVID-19, such as the elderly, will need to get an annual vaccine booster to be protected against variants, an internal document seen by Reuters shows.more
In over 50 media outlets around the world, texts about innovative Poland and ideas for recovering from the pandemic will be published this weekend. more
Coronaviruses have sparked some massive disease outbreaks in living memory, but we've actually been battling them for millennia, according to a new study.more
Only 19 percent of Poles declare that they washed and disinfected their hands before March 2020. In the first months of the pandemic, this percentage increased to 65 percent - according to the latest study.more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted breaking social distancing guidance after pictures of him kissing an aide were published in a newspaper.more
The UK boss of banking giant Citigroup has said its "business works best from being together" as the firm plans for staff to work from the office for three days a week.more
As of Thursday eveniung (June 25) 41,218,602 doses of the various Covid-19 vaccinations had been delivered across Spain with 38,293,871 doses administered, 733,245 of them within the last 24 hour period, a new daily record.more
A new study estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And the declines were most pronounced among minority groups, including Black and Hispanic people.more
Last year more deaths than births were registered in the UK for the first time since 1976. In total, just over 683,000 births were registered compared with nearly 690,000 deaths.more
Sterling retreated on Thursday after the Bank of England kept its monetary policy unchanged, but vowed to monitor rising inflation as the U.K. economy emerges from its Covid-induced slump.more
Overall, the number of coronavirus infections in Sweden is falling, although the Delta (Indian) variant is becoming more and more dominant, said Anders Tegnell's chief epidemiologist.more
Sunseekers were given their biggest boost of the year last night as Ibiza, Majorca, Malta and some Caribbean islands were among 16 places added to the green list.more
The Australian government has announced that it plans to end Covid-19 vaccinations with the British vaccine by October, and later, when Moderna and Pfizer formulas dominate, the vaccine is to be administered only on demand.more
A survey of half a million adults in England suggests around two million people may have had some long-lasting symptoms after having coronavirus - sometimes known as "long Covid".more
