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.
According to many news outlets, Europe experienced a deadly third wave of COVID-19 during the spring of 2021. However, in terms of excess mortality, this third wave was just a blip.
The Bulgarian Government is considering offering vouchers and other incentives to those who get vaccinated against Covid because its roll-out is so slow that many vaccine doses are nearing their expiry dates.
Since the beginning of 2021, excess deaths have been running lower – often much lower – than official COVID-19 deaths in Europe. The latter measure is now substantially overstating the pandemic's death toll.
More than a quarter of adults in the E.U. are either "very unlikely" or "rather unlikely" to accept a Covid vaccine, according to a new survey. Lack of trust in the safety of the vaccine is the main reason for hesitancy.
Norway is the latest country to announce that it will introduce domestic Covid vaccine passports. Will the British Government follow suit, as it did after Italy introduced its first lockdown last February?
So many other Covid vaccines will be available in the Netherlands that most of the 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine ordered by the Dutch Government will go unused, according to a Dutch health official.
The E.U. will soon seal its departure from the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by signing off on the world's biggest vaccine deal yet, buying up to 1.8 billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine to last up until 2023.
