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Australia

Tennis stars hit out at Australian Open COVID isolation measures

Posts on social media show tennis players hitting balls across the walls of their hotel rooms in a bid to stay in shape ahead of the tournament.

Australia

Grand slam champions among players quarantined at Australian Open

Grand slam champions are among 47 players in hard lockdown at the Australian Open, after four people on charter flights into Australia tested positive for COVID-19.

Italy

‘This is civil disobedience’: Rome restaurants defy COVID-19 closures

One restauranteur said recent losses were making it impossible to provide for his children, adding that government financial aid wasn't enough.

Switzerland

Coronavirus: WHO against vaccine passports 'for the time being'

The agency's emergency committee said there were still "too many fundamental unknowns" about the effectiveness of vaccines.

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Norway

Norway reports COVID-19 vaccine deaths in elderly and frail people

The Norwegian Medicines Agency told Euronews it expected to see some deaths linked to vaccinations within nursing homes but noted that fatalities were “very, very rare”.

United Kingdom

UK bans arrivals from South America, Portugal over new COVID variant

Portugal's foreign minister called the UK’s decision “absurd” and “without logic” after arrivals from the country were included in a ban imposed due to a new variant of coronavirus found in Brazil.

USA

Joe Biden unveils $1.9 trillion coronavirus economic relief package

The incoming US president unveiled the American Rescue Plan, which aims to speed up the vaccination campaign and deliver economic aid in the country with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths.

Italy

Artists lockdown at Italian theatre to create a play about confinement

The play will be performed for one night only when theatres are allowed to reopen across Italy.

France

France extends 6pm-to-6am curfew to the whole of the country

The curfew will come into force on Saturday and last for "at least" 15 days.

France

France to ramp up COVID testing in schools in a bid to stop UK variant

"What we know to date is that the virus [variant] appears to be more contagious in children. That's what we're seeing in England," said France's health minister, Olivier Véran.

World

Long-COVID suferer speaks of symptoms and struggles lasting 10 months

Claire Hastie has had daily symptoms for nearly one year now. Doctors have told her that they have no explanation as to why she is still barely able to walk

United Kingdom

COVID-19 infection provides immunity for at least five months: study

A new Public Health England study found that antibodies from a past COVID-19 infection provide 83% protection against reinfection for at least 5 months.

My Europe Series

Why are so many Serbian doctors dying of COVID-19?

Serbia’s total death toll from coronavirus is relatively low, around 3,600, but its rate of fatalities in the medical profession is far higher than in other nations.

United Kingdom

Coronavirus: Scotland's six new rules for a tighter lockdown

Scotland announces a tightening of lockdown rules as th UK continues to struggle in the face of a new variant of COVID-19 that is more transmissible than others.

USA

U.S. requires all arriving air passengers to show negative COVID t

The order does not take effect for two weeks.

United Kingdom

UK records 1,243 daily COVID deaths as hospitalisations surge

BREAKING: UK records 1,243 daily COVID deaths as coronavirus hospitalisations jump 22% in a week

Brazil

'We're super tired of this war': Life on Brazil's COVID-19 frontline

Euronews was given access to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, the city with the highest per capita coronavirus death rate in the country.

Europe News

'We bought as much as we were offered,' says EU amid rollout criticism

Amid rising criticism of a slow approach to immunisation, the EU defended its vaccine strategy in front of MEPs. The Commission's vaccine negotiator said that vaccinations are expected to ramp up from April and that no member state 'should be left behind'.

USA

Eight gorillas at a U.S. zoo have tested positive for coronavirus

It is believed to be the first time the virus has been transmitted from humans to primates.

World

Private clinics start ordering COVID-19 jabs in Brazil

Brazil’s health ministry has yet to deliver details of its national vaccination plan. The central government has tasked state governors, research institutes, and private clinics with acquiring the jabs. Our International correspondent Anelise Borges is in Rio de Janeiro.