Adam Niedzielski

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A healthcare worker treating a homeless man in a hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. Germany and Switzerland has agreed to take Czech Covid patients. Photograph: EPA/Martin Divisek
Hungary tightens lockdown as pandemic ‘third wave’ grips central Europe

Hungary is shutting primary schools and most shops to tame a “very strong” third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced the Czech Republic(...)

Chaplain Kevin Deegan prays with Covid-19 patient Esperanza Salazar, as she speaks with family members remotely, at Providence Holy Cross Medical Centre in the Mission Hills neighbourhood in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty
Covid-19: US passes landmark death toll of 500,000
  • World
  • February 22, 2021

The US has now passed the once-unthinkable tally of 500,000 people dead from Covid-19 – almost matching the number of Americans killed in the second W(...)

Palestinian workers display boxes of Russian-made Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccines received from Israel, as a first shipment arrives on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, south of Rafah, Gaza, this week. Photograph: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg
Israel Covid rate down 96% among those who received both Pfizer shots
  • World
  • February 20, 2021, 09:06

More than 110.7 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded worldwide with more than 2.4 million deaths, according to the latest data from Johns H(...)

Workers in protective suits disinfect against the spread of Covid-19 at the Polish parliament headquarters in Warsaw. Photograph: Mateusz Marek/EPA
Czechs reverse relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions to avert Christmas surge

The Czech Republic has decided to reverse its relaxation of anti-coronavirus measures, as countries across central and eastern Europe that have been h(...)