France is in lockdown again as cases and deaths spike. But look more closely and you find a spike in testing too, leaving the positive rate flat. Plus, excess deaths are negative. Is it in a pseudo-epidemic of testing?
Plenty of readers have come up with suggestions for David McGrogan's Lockdown Sceptics' Library. Highlights include Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, The Captive Mind and the Gulag Archipelago.
The reopening of England's schools has reportedly had no effect on the national Covid R rate. The figure remains below one, according to SAGE.
Lockdown Sceptics has published a new piece by Dr Noah Carl arguing that the strategy recommended in the Great Barrington Declaration – Focused Protection – would have resulted in fewer deaths than locking everybody down.
A legal letter sent to the DHSC says that the ban on older care home residents going to see loved ones violates human rights legislation. Campaigners warn that residents are being treated like "a different species".
The MHRA recorded 30 blood clot cases after the first 18 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK but insists that the benefits of the jab "far outweigh any known side effects".
Police chiefs across the UK have imposed Asbo-style bans in city and town centres giving officers additional powers to break up Easter gatherings. This also includes the power to confiscate items such as alcohol.
Opposition to domestic vaccine passports appears to be growing in the Commons. More than 70 MPs – from differing political backgrounds – have voiced their concern over the introduction of "discriminatory" Covid IDs.
A reader writes to tell us about an unfortunate experience she had with NHS Test and Trace when her deceased husband tested positive for Covid.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
