France and Poland increase lockdown measures as infections
France and Poland have reintroduced partial lockdowns as both countries battle a sharp rise in Covid infections in recent weeks.
Some 21 million people in 16 areas of France, including the capital Paris, are affected as the country fears a third wave.
In Poland, non-essential shops, hotels, cultural and sporting facilities are now closed for three weeks.
The country has the highest new daily rates of Covid cases since November.
Coronavirus cases are also rising exponentially in Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel warning it is likely that the country will now need to apply an "emergency brake" and re-impose lockdown measures.
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The vaccine rollout across the European Union has been hindered by delayed deliveries, as well as the suspension in several countries of the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, over fears of possible side effects.
What's the situation in France and Poland?
In France, the partial lockdown took effect from midnight on Friday.
Trains leaving Paris for parts of the country where lockdown restrictions do not apply, such as Brittany and Lyon, were reportedly fully booked hours before the measures were due to come into effect.
Traffic jams were reported on several roads leaving the capital.
The new restrictions are not be as strict as the previous lockdown, with people allowed to exercise outdoors.
Non-essential businesses are shut, but schools remain open, along with hairdressers if they follow a "particular sanitary protocol".
France has reported more than 4.2 million infections since the start of the outbreak, with nearly 92,000 Covid-related deaths, according to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University in the US.
In Poland, the three-week lockdown began on Saturday.
Polish health officials earlier warned the nationwide restrictions were necessary because of a rampant British variant of Covid-19 in the country. The variant now makes up more than 60% of infections.
Poland has had more than two million confirmed infections, and nearly 49,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Germany said on Friday it was now classifying neighbouring Poland as high risk. This means that from Sunday anyone crossing the border from Poland must provide a negative coronavirus test.
What's the latest on the AstraZeneca vaccine?
Despite assurances from the European medicines regulator that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective, some countries remain reluctant to resume their campaigns using the jab.
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Finland's health authority has announced a pause in its use of the vaccine that will last at least a week.
The move, which follows two reports of blood clots in patients who had received the jab in the country, was said to be a precautionary measure.
Meanwhile, Sweden, Denmark and Norway said on Friday that they needed more time to determine whether they should resume AstraZeneca inoculations.
Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands are among the countries that have restarted their AstraZeneca vaccination campaigns.
Health authorities in France have recommended that the vaccine be offered only to people aged 55 and over.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) reviewed the jab after 13 European countries suspended use of the vaccine over fears of a link to blood clots.
It found the jab was "not associated" with a higher risk of clots.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries to continue using the AstraZeneca vaccine.
On Friday, experts at the WHO said the vaccine had "tremendous potential to prevent infections and reduce deaths across the world".
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"The available data do not suggest any overall increase in clotting conditions such as deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism following administration of Covid-19 vaccines," the WHO's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety said in a statement.
Other European leaders have sought to reassure citizens that the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is safe.
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, 73, said he would happily have the vaccine, but that he had "not yet made a booking".
His French counterpart, 55-year-old Jean Castex, received an AstraZeneca dose on Friday.
The number of patients in intensive care has reached a new high in the Czech Republic, as several Central European countries struggle with a new wave of the virus.
Czech authorities on Tuesday sent the first patient abroad for treatment in Poland as facilities struggled to cope.
In Hungary, meanwhile, the number of cases in the current wave has surpassed the previous peak in December.
Schools and most shops were closed on Monday amid rising infections.
Cases are also on the rise in Poland, where the government recorded the highest number of daily cases since late November on Wednesday, with 17,260 new infections. A health ministry spokesman complained of "increased looseness" among Poles towards anti-Covid measures.
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Restrictions were relaxed last month but they have since been re-imposed in two areas in the north.
The number of Czech patients treated in hospital with Covid-19 reached 8,618 on Wednesday, with 1,853 in intensive care. On Tuesday, the first Czech MP succumbed to the virus. Jiri Ventruba, 71, was a renowned paediatric neurosurgeon.
A chart appeared this week emphasising how far the UK had fallen in Europe's Covid rankings showing it near the bottom with 1,440 new cases per million over the last 14 days. At the top was the Czech Republic with more than 15,000 per million.
The numbers here are shockingly high. According to Our World In Data, the Czechs have the second highest number of total Covid deaths per million in the world, after miniscule San Marino. One Czech immunologist has claimed so many people have been infected, perhaps as many as 45%, that the Czech population is on the brink of achieving herd immunity, with barely any help from vaccines.
Vaccinations are as sluggish here as elsewhere in Europe. For now, the Czechs appear more reticent than Hungary or Slovakia about certifying Russia's Sputnik V vaccine. In the absence of approval by the EU's medicines agency the only man who can make that happen is the health minister. But he's under intense pressure. This morning pro-Russian president Milos Zeman called for his dismissal over his continuing refusal to grant an exception and certify Sputnik.