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Prince William has confirmed he has had the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The Duke of Cambridge, 38, posted a photo on social media on Thursday morning, confirming he had the first dose on Tuesday.more

Flights from India are continuing to land in the UK despite surging cases of the variant first found in the country. Three planes potentially packed with passengers touched down at Heathrow Airport from Mumbai and Delhi early this morning - 26 days after India was slapped on the red list.more

Slovakia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Korczok, announced today that his country will join Central European countries that recognize each other's national vaccination certificates when they cross the border. However, he admitted that there is no uniform confirmation of vaccination in Slovakia so far.more

The rising number of infections with the Indian coronavirus variant in the UK does not necessarily translate into higher hospitalizations and deaths, said Health Minister Matt Hancock, arguing that the government's strategy was effective.more

A Government minister has hinted that more holiday destinations could be added to England’s ‘green list’, in a boost for those hoping for summer getaways.more

Since yesterday, new, milder regulations related to border crossing have been in force for people coming from Poland to Germany.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people should not be holidaying in amber list countries, after a minister said people could go and visit friends.more

The government did not plan enough for a threat on the scale of coronavirus, its spending watchdog has found.more

Now that holidays abroad have not been strongly discouraged since May 15, many people in the Netherlands want to book a summer holiday as soon as possible. Research shows that more than half of the holidaymakers opt for a holiday in their own country.more

The Canadian government hinted this week that it may raise the current limits for permanent residents admitted under its new temporary program.more

In Poland, over 4.6 million people are fully vaccinated; a total of 16 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered to date.more

A nurse who cared for Boris Johnson when he was in intensive care with Covid has quit the NHS and criticised the government's handling of the pandemic and nurses' pay.more

In Italy, there was a second case of mistakenly administering four doses of Pfizer instead of one in a matter of days, Ansa said. It happened again in Tuscany, and a quadruple dose was given to a 67-year-old woman in good health.more

Unemployment dropped slightly to 4.8% in the first quarter of the year as the jobs market showed "early signs of recovery", official figures show.more

Austria will resign from vaccination with AstraZeneca, informed Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein. "We will probably vaccinate with this preparation until the beginning of June, and then the end. We will give up AstraZeneka" - he added in an interview for Puls 24 television.more

The bosses of British Airways and London's Heathrow Airport urged the UK government on Monday to open up more routes for travel, including to the United States, and to simplify the testing hurdles needed to fly.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there is currently nothing to determine that due to the emergence of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, plans to lift the restrictions in June must be abandoned.more

Danish parliamentary parties have agreed to open the country almost completely from next Friday. Employees will be able to gradually return to offices, and the requirement to show a coronavirus passport will be withdrawn from June.more

If the interval between the first and second doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is three months, the body produces three times more antibodies than when they are given every three weeks, the daily Corriere della Sera reported.more

The EU is expected to allow fully vaccinated Brits to fly to Europe without needing to do a Covid test or quarantine, it has been reported. more

The second stage of postovid defrosting will begin tomorrow in France. The gardens of restaurants and cafes will open, visitors will be able to visit cinemas, theaters and museums. However, according to Les Echos, nearly 40 percent of French respondents fear a return of the pandemic.more

Vaccines against Covid-19 from Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech are effective against Indian variants of the coronavirus, according to preliminary laboratory work of American scientists.more

The UK has "increasing confidence" that Covid-19 vaccines work against the Indian variant of the virus, the health secretary has said.more

More than a dozen researchers have published a letter in a top scientific journal calling for further investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.more

International travel has resumed with thousands of UK travellers jetting off to countries on the government’s green travel list on Monday.more