Now playing Next world news COVID vaccinations: UK races ahead as much of EU awaits first doses While the UK ponders a possible vaccine surplus, many people in Europe are wondering when they are going to receive their first doses. 07/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom How worried should you be about new COVID-19 variants? Professor Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, explains why new coronavirus variants have emerged. 05/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom UK regulator says COVID vaccines meet strict safety standards Most of the reported side effects from COVID vaccines are "mild and short lasting", the UK medicines regulator said. 05/02/2021
Now playing Next World Merkel asks Germans to 'hold out a little longer' Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is past the peak of the latest surge in coronavirus cases. But the German leader wants to wait for more data on the spread of new variants before deciding whether to ease lockdown restrictions. 05/02/2021
Now playing Next Germany Merkel says Germany past peak of second COVID wave “I can see a light shining at the end of the tunnel,” Merkel said, but she also urged Germans to be patient and warned against "false hopes." 04/02/2021
Now playing Next France Lockdown will be 'last resort' in France even as COVID variants spread A lockdown "is not justified" yet and should only be used as a "very last resort", Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday. 04/02/2021
Now playing Next World COVID in Europe: Denmark announces plans for digital vaccine passport Spain registered one of its worst months of the pandemic in January with 900,000 new coronavirus infections while Denmark launched plans to reopen society with a new COVID-19 vaccine passport. 04/02/2021
Now playing Next Austria Austria mulls lockdown of Tyrol region amid rise of COVID-19 variants The first confirmed cases of the British virus mutation were discovered in Jochberg in Tyrol in mid-January. 04/02/2021
Now playing Next World Could more have been done to stop the new B117 UK COVID variant? Peter Openshaw, an Immunologist at Imperial University, says hospital admissions were the first clue. 04/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom UK 'past the peak' of COVID wave as hospitalisations decrease The UK has vaccinated more than 10 million people but experts said it will still be weeks before it begins to have an effect on deaths and hospitalisations. 03/02/2021
Now playing Next Europe News Why do countries see vaccination as a race against each other? Vaccination has turned into a global race with countries comparing their performance against each other. 03/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom COVID-19: UK deploys surge testing to track South African variant Additional mobile testing units, door-to-door testing and home testing kits are being deployed in eight areas of England where the variant has already been identified. 02/02/2021
Now playing Next Germany We may need COVID vaccines for 'many years to come', says Merkel Merkel said the situation with COVID-19 is "similar to the flu vaccine, where you re-vaccinate against the new mutation of the virus every time". 02/02/2021
Now playing Next France France says its ski lifts will remain closed until at least March BREAKING: France says its ski lifts will remain closed for at least another month 01/02/2021
Now playing Next world news Nine-in-10 coronavirus vaccinations 'have been in richer nations' North America and Europe have a higher percentage of population vaccinated against coronavirus than the rest of the world so far. 01/02/2021
Now playing Next France New lockdown in France "almost inevitable": infectious diseases expert The current measures that have begun have been seen as mild in a week in which the government appeared to be preparing to issue new stay-at-home orders. 01/02/2021
Now playing Next no comment Cape Town residents break beach ban to protest COVID lockdown South Africa has reported more than 43,000 deaths due to COVID-19. 31/01/2021