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German chancellor says infections may rise 10-fold by Easter if virus’s spread is not haltedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGermany’s tough anti-Covid measures are likely to last a further eight to 10 weeks, Angela Merkel has warned, while the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has extended the Netherlands’ national lockdown into next month.As Europe struggles to stem the number of cases and...

Twenty-six residents have died and 85 more have tested positive for coronavirus since visit in MolAt least 26 residents of a Belgian retirement home have died since a visit by a volunteer dressed as Saint Nicholas who has since tested positive for Covid-19.The deaths at the Hemelrijck home in Mol, near Antwerp, have prompted the local municipality to criticise the “completely irresponsible” organisers of...

France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Bulgaria impose UK bans over new strain; Democrat Chuck Schumer says aid bill ‘should’ have votes to passEuropean states ban travel from UK as new Covid strain takes holdEurope bans travel from the UK over new strain: what we know so farWhat do we know about the fast-spreading Covid variant in UK?Moderna vaccine shipments begin as US...

WHO tells members to redouble efforts to stop spread as Israel turns away UK passport holdersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEU ambassadors are to hold a crisis meeting in Brussels on Monday to discuss travel restrictions on the UK as multiple countries began closing their doors to travellers from Britain after the discovery of a fast-spreading strain of Covid-19.As the World Health...

Pharmaceutical companies complain of breach of confidentiality after amount EU has agreed to pay for leading vaccines goes publicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium’s budget state secretary, Eva De Bleeker, posted the price list on...

Gathering took place above a bar in Brussels, which is under a 10pm to 6am Covid lockdownCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA group of 25 men, said to include an MEP who injured himself as he attempted to flee through a window, have been arrested by Belgian police for breaching the coronavirus lockdown after being discovered at a sex party above a...

People from Belgium and Philippines are also barred in ‘temporary measure taken in response to the pandemic’China has barred non-Chinese travellers from the UK, Belgium and the Philippines, imposing new border restrictions in response to the worsening Covid-19 pandemic.The Chinese embassy in the UK said on Wednesday that China’s borders were now closed to those arriving from the UK, including those with valid visas...

Frank Vandenbroucke says situation in parts of country is ‘most dangerous in all of Europe’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBelgium is losing control of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and is very close to being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of infection, the country’s health minister has said.Frank Vandenbroucke, the federal minister, told the broadcaster RTL that Belgians needed to radically...