Day: 20 June 2021

Lockdown Sceptics has published a guest post by financial historian Edward Chancellor in which he explains why he's not prepared to comply with mask mandates any more. Enough is enough.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has "reached some conclusions" on giving children Covid vaccines, but the Health Department says it is waiting for a "formal recommendation" before considering further.

New research in the Journal of Infection looks at the PCR test results from a large lab in Munster and finds that more than half do not indicate infectious virus, casting doubt on the test's "gold standard" status.

Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has refused to decline claims that lockdowns could be introduced in the winter, saying that “the essence of the virus is you can't ever say mission accomplished”.

Prof Brendan Wren says the data should give us hope for an early unlock and that mass testing is likely providing a false impression of the number of Covid carriers. But Boris is likely to stick to July 19th (at least).

Britain's medicines regulator has received reports from almost 4,000 women who have suffered period problems after taking a Covid vaccine, and a Reproductive Immunologist says plenty more cases are not being reported.

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.