Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens
Bloc’s first preparedness strategy urges people to prepare for floods, fires, pandemics or military strikes People in the EU are being advised to stockpile enough...
Category : Infectious diseases
Mpox: Sweden confirms first case of ‘more grave’ variant outside Africa
Clade I case comes after World Health Organization declares a global public health emergency What is mpox and why has it been declared a global...
Spain makes facemasks mandatory in hospitals as respiratory illnesses
Rules reintroduced as ‘commonsense measure’ despite opposition from some regional administrations Face masks will be mandatory in hospitals and health centres in Spain from Wednesday...
Seals practise social distancing, aerial survey of North Sea shows
Research suggests behaviour may reflect evolutionary response to previous outbreaks of disease Aerial surveys of the North Sea have revealed that seals practise social distancing...
Hiker describes squalid conditions at evacuated Swedish mountain lodge
Airlifts were carried out from STF Kebnekaise in Lapland on Sunday after a stomach bug outbreak A hiker has described squalid conditions at a mountain...
EU to require travellers from China to take pre-departure Covid tests
Bloc’s tougher entry requirements come despite warnings from Beijing of retaliation The European Union is expected to require all travellers from China to take pre-departure...
EU states resist joining Italy on Covid testing for arrivals from China
Italy urges action at European level as more than 50% of recent arrivals from China test positive at Milan airport Member states of the European...
US to require arrivals from China to provide negative Covid test
Other countries including Italy have taken similar steps after Beijing’s rollback of ‘zero-Covid’ policies led to surge in cases The US has announced all travellers...
Covid news live: Omicron carries lower hospitalisation risk, studies suggest; China locks down city of 13 million
Data from the UK and South Africa suggest Omicron carries a reduced risk of hospitalisation and severe disease; Xi’an, China, is under strict lockdown following...
Johnson says he must ‘reserve possibility of taking further action’ after 91,743 new cases – as it happened
Government mulls new measures to curb Omicron amid second highest daily case toll of pandemic, as hospitalisations in London rise ‘quite steeply’ Johnson avoids more...
