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Alcorexia, or the disorder of abstaining from eating to compensate for the calories contained in consumed alcohol, is becoming a dangerous trend, said Spanish psychologist Albert Espelt in an interview with EFE.more

Counterfeit NHS vaccine certificates are being offered for sale through an encrypted messaging app, PoliticsHome has learned.more

Panta Petrovic who has spent 20 years in his remote hilltop home found out about the pandemic on an unusual journey to the local supermarket - and has now got his jab.more

Almost 35.2 million vaccinations have already been performed in Poland. There are over 18 million people who have taken the recommended number of doses.more

Developed at Flinders University, the vaccine is likely not only to protect against disease, but also against the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The preparation contains an artificially created protein and an adjuvant developed in Australia.more

Cases of people with suspected serious conditions waiting more than 10 minutes for an ambulance have more than doubled since 2019.more

Already three-quarters of UK adults have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but 146 deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours among patients diagnosed with coronavirus, the highest number since March 12, it has been reported.more

Achieving herd immunity to the coronavirus is not possible with the Delta variant, because the virus is spreading all the time and also infected people who are fully vaccinated, said British scientists.more

Pressure grows on government to do more to help poorer countries left ‘fighting for scraps’.more

Francis Goncalves from Wales, who lost almost his entire family to the coronavirus within a week, urges all residents not to delay getting vaccinated.more

Under the new Australian government guidelines, employers will be able to ask their employees if they are vaccinated against Covid-19, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The authorities justify that it is about ensuring safety in the workplace.more

Verbal aggression and threats against doctors, particularly GPs, have increased significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, the British Medical Association (BMA) reported today.more

New Covid passport rules in France mean tourists face being banned from bars and cafes without showing proof of vaccination or a negative test.more

A group of protesters have attempted to storm BBC premises in west London this afternoon.more

The US president's medical adviser warns of an even more dangerous variant of the coronavirus than Delta. "There is a danger that a mutation will arise against which currently available vaccines cannot be protected," said Dr. Anthony Fauci.more

The US is now averaging 100,000 new Covid-19 infections a day, as the Delta variant continues to spread throughout the country.more

34.4 percent of Poles surveyed negatively evaluate the activities of the Polish Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, and 27 percent - positively. 9.7 percent Poles had no opinion on this subject.more

NHS waiting lists in England could go beyond 14 million by next autumn as the health service scrambles to reset after the pandemic.more

Australia has the highest number of new cases of Covid-19 this year - 361. More than 15 million inhabitants of the island are under a severe lockdown, the Reuters Agency said. Five people infected with the coronavirus have died.more

After the administration of over 34.9 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, 14.1 thousand were received. thousand adverse vaccine reactions, of which 11.8 thous. of mild reactions, manifested by redness and short-term soreness at the injection site.more

Over 34.8 million vaccinations against COVID-19 have been carried out in Poland. Over 17.7 million people are fully vaccinated. The highest percentage of fully vaccinated people is in Podkowa Leśna in Mazowsze - 64 percent; the smallest is in the Czarny Dunajec commune in Podhale - 17.8 percent.more

From November 11, all elderly care workers in England will have to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the British government announced yesterday.more

The total number of detected coronavirus infections in the UK has already exceeded 6 million, and the last million were found in less than a month, according to statistics released yesterday.more

The American pharmaceutical company Moderna announced that its vaccine against Covid-19 is in approx. 93 percent. effective for six months after the second dose. The company therefore advocates giving a booster dose.more

The introduction of new covid regulations has many more supporters than opponents - informs today's "Rzeczpospolita" based on the results of the IBRiS survey.more