…Disease Prevention & Control (ECDC).In addition, the sudden surge in migration from Ukraine, where immunisation rates are low, adds to the pressure on countries such…
…likely to visit health care facilities to seek care for mild illness during full or partial lockdowns in countries.Poland accounts for a high proportion of…
…since Russia invaded in late February, with roughly six million displaced internally and another six million taking refuge in other European countries. Poland has welcomed more…
…Europe remains mixed. Vaccine uptake in Bulgaria is stuck at 34% while only half of Romania’s population is vaccinated. Uptake in Poland is also relatively…
…the WHO European Region, with an increase in cases detected in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Now flu is ‘widespread’ in Poland, Sweden and…
…vaccination rates are low and death rates are now at their highest since the pandemic began, or Poland where the latest wave has pushed mortality…
…from UNICEF’s Angus Thomson on the role of social media companies in vaccine acceptance; Joanna Oberska, on the role of pharmacists in Poland and beyond;…
…months but sharply decoupled in the summer while France, Denmark, Malta, Ireland and Portugal raced ahead. Near neighbours in Hungary, Slovakia and Poland are also…
…Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania and Spain. Answers were also received from Croatia, Germany, Finland, Austria, Bulgaria, the UK, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia.Survey…
…was spreading fast. Teachers began asking Joanna and Marianna to teach more classes; new schools contacted them from other large cities across Poland. Thanks to…
…has vaccinated the highest number of people, followed by China, the United Kingdom, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Germany, Italy and Poland are also…
…been reported across the continent, prompting the WHO to advise that older people and healthcare workers be prioritised.Several countries, including Portugal, Poland, Ireland and the…
…Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia and Estonia) report flu vaccine uptake rates below 20%. A further six countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Poland) did not…
…the 95% measles vaccination target EU reports more than 12,000 cases in first nine months of 2019; France, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Poland are worst…
…the political spectrum. In Europe too, there are examples of anti-vaccine populists (broadly) on the right in France, Poland and Italy. But, anecdotally, there are…
…are for life, not just for kids In France, a 17-year-old girl died of measles last year; in Poland, adolescent boys are hardest hit by…
Iceland has given €1 million to Malawi’s immunisation programme through GAVI Norway has helped Poland develop a vaccination website Denmark backed Lithuania’s vaccination programme in…
…are now rare in Europe. The UK, for example, eliminated rubella in 2015. Most European cases are reported in Poland, although some experts have suggested…
