Day: 25 June 2021

Pupils, inspired by videos on TikTok and Instagram, are using fruit juice and fizzy drinks to get false positive Covid test results and skip school.

Results from 10 large-scale trial events show that just 28 positive Covid tests were recorded among almost 60,000 participants, as a senior Government adviser says the European Championship finals can go ahead safely.

In a perplexing and worrying development, Seychelles, one of the world's most vaccinated countries, announced today that it was extending restrictions for an indefinite period as infections remain persistently high.

Only Brits who have been fully vaccinated against Covid, and have a vaccine passport to prove it, will be able to travel to "Green List" country Malta without having to quarantine for up to two weeks from June 30th.

The Sun has an old fashioned 'minister-caught-having-an-affair' scoop on its front page today – and the politician in the frame is Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Is this another case of "One rule for them"?

The Transport Secretary says new "Green Watchlist" countries could return to the "Amber List" at short notice due to changes that occur "with quite a lot of regularity". He refused to say whether he would book a holiday.

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.

A new study from leading U.S. think tank National Bureau of Economic Research has shown (once again) that lockdown policies produced no discernible reduction of the pandemic death toll. If anything, they increased it.