- Most of the Netherlands' current lockdown measures must remain in place until at least mid-December, despite a 15 percent drop in new cases, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced.

- Hungary vetoed the European Union's post-coronavirus recovery fund because it "attempts to blackmail countries which oppose migration," claims Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

- France's total number of cases now exceeds 2 million but according to its top health official, lockdown measures are starting "to bear fruit."

- State auditors have criticized the UK government for a lack of transparency over handing out $24 billion in coronavirus contracts as ministers refute claims they are running a "chumocracy."

- Ukraine's coronavirus death toll has exceeded 10,000 after the health ministry registered on Wednesday a record 256 new deaths in 24 hours. 

- Drugmaker Pfizer said it "didn't conspire with anyone" to delay the release of efficacy results for its much-vaunted vaccine until after the U.S. presidential election.

- A third health chief in the southern Italian region of Calabria has quit in barely a week, leaving the coronavirus "red-zone" without anyone to steer its emergency coronavirus plan.

- Denmark's government has finally gained parliamentary support to legalize its cull of all farmed mink to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested negative for COVID-19, but will continue to self isolate in accordance with government guidance.

- There is no significant evidence of the coronavirus being spread through food trade, according to the chief economist of the United Nations' food and agriculture agency, who said such reports "need to be minimized."

- British Airways and American Airlines are set to launch a virus testing trial this month in the hope of convincing the U.S. and UK governments to introduce testing so that transatlantic travel can restart.

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