HELSINKI
A Finnish nurse has made headlines by appearing to disprove pharmaceutical company Pfizer wrong with regards to its estimate that every vial of the COVID-19 vaccine is enough for five jabs, by demonstrating that seven people can be vaccinated using one vial. Read more.
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BRUSSELS
Flemish health minister rejects calls to prioritise youngsters in vaccination. A group of about 40 people from various sectors in Flanders have written a letter asking for young people between 16-25 years to be considered an “essential” group and be given priority in Belgium’s vaccination campaign. Flemish Minister of Health Wouter Beke rejected the idea. Read more.
Italy s president calls on Mario Draghi to lead country
Updated / Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021
21:27
Mario Draghi is the former head of the European Central Bank
Italy s president has called in former central banker Mario Draghi to help resolve the virus-ravaged country s political crisis.
The move came after talks aimed at forming a new government collapsed.
Sergio Mattarella s spokesman said he would meet Mr Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, tomorrow.
He is widely expected to ask him to take over as prime minister.
The coalition government has been in turmoil since a key partner withdrew last month, depriving ex-prime minister Giuseppe Conte of his majority in parliament.
MADRID
The economic side-effects of the COVID19 pandemic in Spain have been devastating for the country’s vulnerable labour market as almost 623,000 people lost their job last year, according to fresh data released Tuesday by Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE). Read more.
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BERLIN
Travel restrictions are on their way, says Seehofer. After initially waiting for a European solution, Germany is going to ban travel from countries with high levels of infection from the mutated coronavirus, according to German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU). A decision on the matter is expected later on Friday. Read more.
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PARIS
France could go back into lockdown. “The curfew and all the measures are certainly useful but probably insufficient”, Health Minister Olivier Véran said during the now traditional government update on the health situation on Thursday evening, adding that the new variants should be considered “as new viruses requiring new measures to protect
Mattarella holds third day of crisis consultations
President to meet M5S and centre-right opposition
29 Gennaio 2021
ROME, JAN 29 - President Sergio Mattarella is set to
meet the 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the parties belonging to the
centre-right opposition on the third day of formal consultations
on Italy s government crisis on Friday.
On Thursday the head of state met, among others, the party that
triggered the crisis in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic by
pulling its support for Giuseppe Conte s executive, ex-premier
Matteo Renzi s Italia Viva (IV).
Renzi s comments after the Thursday s meeting were interpreted
by many political pundits as suggesting it will be difficult for
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