Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
Coronavirus in England – “tens of thousands” of deaths now inevitable says SAGE professor
John Edmunds, a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told MPs on Wednesday that without further measures England’s tiered Covid-19 strategy would lead to high numbers of new infections every day, putting the NHS under strain and driving up the death toll. More...
Boris Johnson confirms Bolton will move to the ‘very high’ coronavirus alert level on Friday
Boris lets off another cracker just before midnight.
BOLTON will be placed under stricter coronavirus controls from Friday after talks between the Government and civic leaders concluded without an agreement. More...
555 Greater Manchester schools affected by Covid
The number of Greater Manchester schools affected by confirmed Covid cases this academic year now stands at 555. More...
Londonderry doctor likened his shift inside the city’s GP Covid centre to a “war zone”
Dr Paul Molloy said the number of people attending the Covid centre on a daily basis was higher than those seeking help in April during the first lockdown
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/strain-on-altnagelvin-hospitals-ability-to-cope-likely-to-worsen-as-medic-says-its-like-war-zone-39648500.html More...
SARS-CoV-2 viruses found on glass and polypropylene surfaces in hospital despite the air being renewed every minute
Researchers from the Murcian Institute for Biosanitary Research (IMIB) found SARS CoV-2 viruses on glass and polypropylene surfaces from the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in Murcia despite the fact that the air is renewed every minute. More...
German Alpine region goes back into coronavirus lockdown
The 105,000 people of Berchtesgadener Land, bordering Austria, will only be allowed to leave home for essential reasons for the next two weeks. More...
School children and twenty-somethings have driven England’s current Covid-19 outbreak
Deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam warned high infection rates have now spread ‘coast to coast’ in England. More...
2,985 students and 310 teachers test positive for COVID-19 in Catalonia, Spain
Catalan schools have registered a total of 3,330 COVID-19 positives in the last 10 days, of which 2,985 are students (0.21% of the total number of students in Catalonia), 310 teachers and administration and services staff (0, 19%) and 35 belong to external personnel. More...
Dutch Covid experts: Shut all schools during second wave
Schoolchildren form a growing group of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands population. More...
German man takes COVID-19 distancing rules to extreme with pepper spray
German police said Monday that a 71-year-old man took social distancing to a new extreme over the weekend, by pepper-spraying people who he felt got too close. More...