Britain is unlikely to reopen overseas travel to the major European holiday destinations until the beginning of August, UK ambassadors have warned.more
There was a record rise in the number of workers on payrolls in May as the jobs market continued to recover. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there were 197,000 more people in payrolled employment last month compared with April, the highest rise since records began in 2014.more
Business groups have warned that pubs, bars, restaurants and nightclubs face significant hardship or collapse after the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in England was postponed for four weeks without new financial support from the government.more
Some Covid restrictions in England will stay in place for now, the government has confirmed. It had hoped to "remove all legal limits on social contact" from 21 June. That's been put back until 19 July - although a review will take place in two weeks.more
The Delta variant of Covid-19, first identified in India, has been detected in 74 countries and continues to spread rapidly amid fears that it is poised to become the dominant strain worldwide.more
All adults in Wales have been offered a Covid jab, which the Welsh government says is six weeks ahead of schedule. Data published by Public Health Wales on Monday showed 2,216,031 people have been given a first vaccine dose - 70.3% of the population.more
The American concern Novavax has announced the latest large study, which indicates the high effectiveness of the vaccine against various variants of Covid-19.more
The British medical journal Lancet called for "global talks" about the organization of the Tokyo Games during the Covid-19 pandemic and criticized international health organizations for keeping silent on the matter, Kyodo reported.more
Italy’s vaccination campaign has been thrown into chaos after experts banned the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for the under-60s only days after young Italians were encouraged to take it.more
For the first time in more than eight months, health authorities in Germany have reported less than 1,000 new coronavirus infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in a single day. The Minister of Health is in favor of the gradual abolition of the obligation to use masks.more
People in England and Wales rated their happiness the day before at an average of 7.2 out of 10 before the pandemic. The ONS has been monitoring levels throughout the pandemic, and that score dropped to its lowest point at 6.4 during the first week of lockdown at the end of March last year.more
Most coronavirus rules will remain in place in England for another four weeks after the planned 21 June unlocking, government sources have told the BBC.more
They are stressed, they feel insecure and fearful. They admit that they had no direct contact with the teacher and their peers because of the lack of direct contact with them. They also believe that stationary education is more difficult than remote education - these are the results of a survey conducted among Polish students in the first days after their return to full-time education.more
Boris Johnson has admitted he is less optimistic about the easing of lockdown restrictions than he was last month and offered a strong hint he will delay the 21 June reopening.more
Leaders of the major industrial nations have pledged one billion Covid vaccine doses to poor countries as a "big step towards vaccinating the world", Boris Johnson has said.more
People recovering from Covid-19 and vaccinated against this disease should use the sun very carefully this summer, because their skin may be weaker and more exposed to it, warn Italian experts, quoted by the daily Il Messaggero.more
Queen Elizabeth II will honor those responsible for the AstraZeneca vaccine and other scientists associated with the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, according to the annual honors list released on Friday.more
Despite the approval of spectators at tomorrow's match between Spain and Sweden in the European football championship, fans' trip to Seville is an "odyssey of problems", local commentators say. They predict that the tournament will be overshadowed by sanitary restrictions and the ubiquitous chaos related to the pandemic.more
A cluster of the Delta (or ‘Indian’) variant of Covid-19 has been confirmed in Strasbourg, eastern France, with four positive cases and 43 contacts being investigated.more
In Poland, 24 million 45 thousand 826 vaccinations against COVID-19 were performed, government sites said yesterday. 9,479, 766 people are fully vaccinated. The daily number of vaccinations amounted to nearly 402 thousand.more
