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The nation's top infectious diseases expert said Sunday he did not expect the U.S. will need to reenter lockdown, as the Delta strain of the coronavirus drives surges in new cases across the country.more

More than 68% of 18 to 29-year-olds in England have had a first jab, while 88.6% of all UK adults have had one. In total, over 85 million doses have now been administered across the UK. More than 72.5% of UK adults have received two doses so far.more

Vaccinated Israelis who go on to contract the coronavirus experience it more mildly but can still suffer from so-called “long COVID” in significant numbers, a study published Wednesday suggests.more

Young people will be offered discounted takeaways and taxi rides to get their Covid jabs in a bid to boost vaccine uptake, the government has said. Food delivery and taxi-hailing firms including Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims will offer incentives to people to get vaccinated.more

England's chief midwife has stepped up her call for pregnant women to get the Covid jab as soon as possible. Estimates based on GP records and Public Health England data suggest hundreds of thousands have not had the jab, as the number of mums-to-be in hospital with the virus rises.more

A record number of 1,339 people died in Scotland in 2020 because of drug use, the country's authorities said yesterday. In Scotland, the proportion of drug-related deaths relative to the population is about 3.5 times higher than anywhere else in Europe.more

With many people complaining about brain fog, attention problems and confusion after COVID-19, researchers are exploring whether infections could have long-term consequences for the brain.more

Relaxing restrictions like mask-wearing and social distancing when most people have been vaccinated greatly increases the risk of vaccine-resistant variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, new research showed.more

Italian police had broken up a number of online schemes offering to sell fake European Union digital COVID-19 status certificates or purported coronavirus vaccines.more

In the last 24 hours in the UK, 29,622 coronavirus infections were detected and 65 deaths due to Covid-19. These numbers indicate that the third wave of the epidemic may be stabilizing, but experts are also paying attention to other data.more

On average, every Pole over the age of 15 drinks 136 liters of beer a year, or 272 half-liter cans, which means the consumption of over 5 kg of ethanol. About 55 percent. ethanol that goes to the organism of Polish society comes from beer - according to the latest report "Poland flooded with beer" prepared by experts commissioned by the Jagiellonian Institutemore

Covid vaccine passports have effectively been introduced for users of the NHS app in England via a change to the app’s features.more

Former Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen is set to return to Inter Milan for tests to decide if he can continue his playing career.more

The third dose of the vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech "strongly" increases the protection against the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Antibody levels are five times higher than after the second dose, the drug manufacturer says.more

Infections prevented by COVID-19 vaccines in the UK has risen to 22 million as the number of deaths prevented as a result of vaccinations rises to 60,000, latest official data released here on Thursday said.more

Herd immunity in the UK is a “mathematical impossibility” without vaccinating children – and even then may not be obtained, a leading scientist has warned. more

AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t raise the risk of a rare blood clotting disorder after a second dose, suggesting people shouldn’t hesitate to get another one if they didn’t have trouble after the first.more

From January 1, 2022, hospitals will have the right to display the patient's name, surname and date of birth on the wristbands identifying the patient. Experts from the GDPR are protesting against this, but the authorities of medical institutions are happy - reports the Prawo.pl website.more

Double-jabbed Brits are reporting an unexpected symptom after catching Covid. The main indicators of the disease are still loss of smell, persistent cough, and fever. But people who have been vaccinated are now more likely to report sneezing as a coronavirus symptom than those yet to get jabbed.more

About one in three middle-aged people has multiple chronic health issues, a long-running British study suggests. The 1970 British Cohort Study has been periodically tracking the lives of about 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week.more

The health certificate system that allows people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, have had an infection or have a current negative test result for the presence of coronavirus to enter, for example, a restaurant or cinema. in Austria, France, Greece or Cyprus. It will also start operating in Italy soon.more

The European Union needs a vaccination coverage higher than 70% of adult population to stop the spread of new and highly transmissible COVID-19 variants, says Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst, warning the virus can "happily circulate" among the unvaccinated.more

Italy is "likely" to change the rules for accessing its health pass for travel in the coming weeks, the country's deputy health minister said on Wednesday.more

The number of new COVID-19 cases recorded in the UK has risen after seven consecutive days of falls, according to government data. The country has reported 27,734 new infections and 91 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period.more

Amid spiking temperatures and humidity at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, tennis player Daniil Medvedev posed an unsettling question: Who would take responsibility if he were to die on court?more