Councils in some variant "hotspots" are telling 16 and 17 year-olds to get a Covid vaccine, without the need of an appointment, despite there not having been an official decision on child vaccination from the Government.
While vaccine hesitancy rates among British adults have fallen to just four per cent, around one in seven older teenagers are hesitant over getting a Covid vaccine, according to new Office for National Statistics data.
As infections surge during winter in the 'Zero Covid' state, the national Government in Australia finally accepts that trying to keep Covid out forever is no way to run a country.
Asda is the latest business giant to tell its office workers they can work where they like, amid suggestions that "hybrid working", where staff work from home some of the time, could become the norm post-lockdown.
As a recent NYT article notes, nearly every case of SARS since the first outbreak has been due to lab leaks. There have been "six incidents in three countries, including twice in a single month from a lab in Beijing".
The E.U.'s vaccine passport doesn't just make life difficult for the unvaccinated. Millions of vaccinated Brits do not qualify because they were given an Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccine not yet approved in the E.U.
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.
Robert Dingwall, the most sensible member of SAGE, gave a belter of an interview on the World at One earlier, which a kind reader has transcribed for Lockdown Sceptics.
