New Covid-19 Cases Surge Globally For First Time in Weeks: WHO

Spahn said general practitioners and specialists who routinely offer vaccinations as part of regular health care services should be comprehensively involved in the vaccination campaign.

The Austrian government announced on Monday it plans to allow cafe and restaurant terraces to reopen this month in a further easing of its Covid-19 lockdown.

Non-essential businesses, schools, hairdressers, and museums are now open but restaurants, bars, hotels, and theatres remain shut.

Some 62 percent of Russians did not want to get the Sputnik V vaccine — Russia's domestically produced vaccine, according to a poll conducted by the independent Moscow-based Levada Center.

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The highest level of reluctance was identified among 18 to 24-year-olds. Most respondents said side effects such as fever and fatigue are the main reason for not wanting to get inoculated.

The poll also found that 64 percent of Russians thought Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon. The center sampled 1,601 people in 50 regions.

More than 20 million people in the UK have been given at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the country's Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Sunday evening.

Government figures revealed that 20,089,551 people from a population of some 66 million had been administered a jab. The UK has been ahead of other countries in Europe in vaccinating its population by extending the waiting time between the two doses up to three months so that more people can be partially vaccinated quicker.

The number of coronavirus cases in Germany went up by 4,732 to 2,447,068, according to figures released early on Monday by the country's Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases. Covid-linked fatalities went up by 60, to 70,105 in total.