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The mental toll for health workers on Spain's coronavirus frontline

Pablo is a nurse in Madrid's La Paz hospital. He worked on the frontline of COVID-19 during the first pandemic. He had no idea the toll it would take on his mental health.

World News

The EU's ambitious €5 billion health programme: What's it all about?

EU4Health is the biggest financed health programme ever. It's an EU initiative to improve health systems across the bloc and make them ready for any further health crisis. Its EU rapporteurs tell us what it's all about.

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Combating the COVID-19 across borders: Japan’s multilateral approach to the global pandemic crisis

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Countries around the globe are taking comprehensive measures to respond to COVID-19, but this is a crisis that cannot be solved by nations acting alone.

Euronews Debates

Euronews debates: What's the future of healthcare post-COVID-19?

What's the future of healthcare? Are you going to become your own doctor? Can AI beat the world's biggest diseases? Are hospitals as we know them going to disappear? What are the breakthrough technologies which will transform medicine in the next decade?

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France

France recommends reserving AstraZeneca vaccine for over 55s

Despite resuming the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, France's health authority has recommended reserving it for people aged 55 and over.

Work

Spain poised to trial four-day working week

Spain could become one of the first countries in the world to trial a four-day working week.

Smart Regions

European software helps fight the pandemic by speeding up drug production

In partnership with the European Commission

A European software is enabling researchers to speed up drug production by interpreting chemical compounds and molecules on a range of laboratory machines. Pharmaceutical companies working on COVID-19 vaccines use it every day.

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Innovators in Japan are developing new technologies to counter coronavirus

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As the global coronavirus pandemic continues, the world is searching for new measures that will minimize the risk of infection while allowing essential institutions such as hospitals, government, and schools to continue to function.

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Robotic assistance has the potential to play a key role in the fight against COVID-19

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The coronavirus pandemic has presented enormous challenges to healthcare providers, businesses, governments, and to the general public.

Business Planet

Smart solution: how business clusters drive innovation

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet heads to Iasi in Romania to see how one tech company got its pharmacy app off the ground thanks to being part of a cluster.

World News

Biden waits as House set to vote on $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill

The massive package provides up to $1,400 direct payments to most Americans, extended emergency unemployment benefits and hundreds of billions for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

French Polynesia

France 'underestimated nuclear tests impact' in French Polynesia

The findings, published by the investigative journalism newsroom Disclose, suggest that the radiation levels caused by the tests were far greater than officially acknowledged.

Poland

Poland urged to suspend planned hospital treatments amid COVID spike

Poland's health authority has recommended the suspension of scheduled medical appointments to provide additional hospital beds during the pandemic.

Smart Regions

This is Europe’s first cross-border mobile hospital

In partnership with the European Commission

The French and Spanish Pyrenees regions get help with medical emergencies from the European project EGALURG. Its self-reliant mobile hospital also brings COVID-19 vaccine relief to rural communities.

Czech Republic

Czech Republic imposes tightest restrictions yet amid COVID surge

More than 1,500 COVID-19 patients are occupying intensive care beds, the highest number yet recorded by the Czech healthcare system.

Czech Republic

ICU capacity in Czech Republic 'will be exhausted in 2 weeks'

The Czech Republic health officials say hospitals are overwhelmed and they plan to ask for help from abroad when the numbers of remaining beds in hospitals reach 10%

World

Online make-up tutorials help boost cancer patients' self-esteem during the pandemic

With Covid-19 limiting opportunities for face-to-face support, make-up artist Laura Hunt is giving online make-up tutorials to help cancer patients boost their self-esteem.

World News

Head of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games says he won't resign over sexism row

Yoshiro Mori was reported to have said women talk too much when questioned about the lack of women on the board of the Olympic Games, prompting calls for his resignation.

Europe News

Brussels wants to cut the proportion of smokers in the EU to just 5%

Margaritis Schinas, vice president of the European Commission, said he wanted to create a tobacco-free generation of Europeans.

World

Serbian PM: Vaccine success down to prioritising health over politics

The latest data shows that 6.4 doses have been administered per 100 people in the Balkan state. That's higher than any EU state.