Day: 21 April 2021

Secondary school pupils will not have to wear face masks in classrooms from next month, according to Gavin Williamson, but masks will still be required in corridors and on school busses.

A reader of Lockdown Sceptics decided to test some familiar household objects for COVID-19. You'll be amazed by what came up positive.

Michigan is doing worse than Texas because people are ignoring the lockdown, Anthony Fauci tells Congress. Do feeble answers like this suggest lockdownism is collapsing?

Good to see this picture of Michael Gove ignoring the rules about indoor mask wearing. As you can see, he has set his to one side while talking to Benjamin Netanyahu. Can we all now stop this pointless virtue-signalling?

Fitness chain PureGym suffered pre-tax losses of almost £215 million last year after the forced closure of their sites due to Government-imposed lockdowns led to 12% of its members leaving.

Border officials have said that around 100 fake Covid test certificates are found every day at the U.K. border because the documents are "very easy" to forge. Fakes are usually only identified due to spelling errors.

Why have the British people overwhelmingly backed the lockdowns? One possible reason is that they overestimate the risks of COVID-19, especially the risks to young people.

GPs at sites that are only administering the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine have been told to cancel all appointments for pregnant women after the JCVI admitted that “more research is needed” on the vaccine.

Despite the vaccines there will be another Covid wave, Boris said yesterday, as he announced a task force to find new treatments before winter. Is this another sign of waning Government confidence in the vaccines?

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.