In case having to "sign in" – and showing staff your phone to prove it – every time you go to the pub wasn't bad enough, pubs in parts of England will now also force drinkers to wear face masks while sat outside.
Following yesterday's news about the pro-vaccination ruling in the European Court of Human Rights, we asked David McGrogan, Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School, to take a look at the judgment for us.
The latest cautionary tale being held up to locked down Britons as the reason we can't be released is Chile, where an ambitious vaccination programme has not prevented a new surge. But is all as it seems?
Norman Fenton, Martin Neil and Scott Mclachlan, computer scientists at Queen Mary, have done an analysis of how many asymptomatic people there are with COVID-19. Their conclusion: not one in three, but one in 19.
Less than a week after the MHRA said Brits below the age of 30 should be offered alternatives to the AstraZeneca vaccine, Government advisors have said that the same rule could apply for those aged 30-39.
The goalposts have been shifted so many times that it has become difficult to keep up with the latest requirements set by the Government to unlock Britain.
Given the success of our vaccine rollout, why is the Prime Minister dragging his feet over the reopening of Britain? A braver politician would sideline those imposing politically impossible conditions on our freedoms.
The Government has yet to announce where different countries are likely to feature on its "traffic light system" when holidays resume this year, but here is a list of the countries expected to appear on the "green list".
England is "in the grip of a mental health crisis" because of lockdowns, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists – and under-18s are "bearing the brunt".
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.
