Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
Poland: Second coronavirus outbreak on mink farm detected – all mink to be killed
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak has been detected in two mink farms in the Biała Podlaska district (eastern Poland), the Chief Veterinary Officer informed. More...
Germany: Delta coronavirus infections double in one week
In Germany, the proportion of Delta variant infections is growing significantly. More...
Scotland: Delta runs rampant – record high coronavirus infection numbers for second day in a row
The Scottish Government has said that Scotland has recorded the highest number of daily coronavirus cases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic for the second day in a row. More...
Angela Merkel: quarantine the British to prevent Delta coronavirus variant
Angela Merkel has only just returned from the G7 summit in Britain where there was virtually NO social distancing*, NO masks, NO vaccine requirement and NO quarantine on return. More...
UK: G7 Superspreader Summit – Cornwall coronavirus rates soar above England average for the first time ever
Covid rates in Cornwall have risen above the England average for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
Norway: Nursing home deaths after Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccination
In the period 27 December 2020 to 15 February 2021, about 29,400 of Norway’s roughly 35,000 nursing home patients were vaccinated with the [Pfizer–BioNTech] mRNA vaccine BNT162b2. More...
UK: 30%+ hospitalisation vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta coronavirus
UK Vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi says more than 60% of hospitalisations for the Delta variant are for people who have not been vaccinated (or, in other words, more than 30% of hospitalisations are for people who HAVE been partially or fully vaccinated). More...
Ireland: fur-farming including mink to be banned in 2022 to prevent coronavirus zoonosis
The Irish Cabinet is set to agree to ban fur-farming from next year, with a compensation package for farmers also expected. More...
Russia: coronavirus revaccination planned for Moscow
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said that revaccination against coronavirus in the capital will take place with the Sputnik Light vaccine, which is also planned to be used to vaccinate labor migrants. More...
USA/UK: 2 separate clades of Delta coronavirus variant with K417N – AY.1 and AY.2
Through routine scanning of variation in Delta, a small number of sequences were detected which had acquired the spike protein mutation K417N. More...