Tag: Europe

Will immunity from prior Covid infections and vaccines cancel the winter flu season this year, as some are optimistically predicting? Or is this a fool's hope that risks shunting us into a new lockdown?

Professor John Edwards, a SAGE adviser, has urged the public to get booster jabs to ensure that anti-lockdown protests, which have recently erupted on the Continent, don't happen in the U.K.

Professor Neil Ferguson has said that Britain is unlikely to need a winter lockdown because high cases numbers earlier in the year mean antibody levels are higher in the U.K. than Holland or Germany.

Bad news for our continental cousins: lockdowns are returning to Europe, with Holland announcing a three week lockdown starting tomorrow and Austria imposing a lockdown on the unvaccinated.

A late autumn surge in reported Covid infections is underway in Europe, despite high vaccine coverage and the heavy use of vaccine passports. So what does the winter have in store?

Has the winter 'flu season' begun in northern Europe, with signs of upticks in Covid positive tests in the U.K., Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and also Russia?

Despite spectacular levels of spending and impressive vaccination rates, the U.K. has fared poorly in the pandemic compared both to one of Europe's poorer countries and to other island nations.

Britain is set to join the E.U.'s vaccine passport scheme. "To make journeys easier," according to Government officials. Joining it would also enable ministers to launch a domestic passport system more quickly.

U.K. school closures lasted longer than in any other European country bar one, new analysis has found, with children here spending more than double the amount of time out of school than in 14 countries on the Continent.

The relationship between COVID-19 death rates and population density in Europe is surprisingly weak. While density probably does matter, it is not the most important factor affecting death rates in Europe.