“Covid unlocking on July 19th must come with a warning, says Johnson” – The Guardian has learned that Government ministers have been briefed to expect at least one to two million new cases of coronavirus in the coming weeks, but fewer will end up in hospital and die thanks to the vaccination programme
“Scotland is ‘past the worst’ of Covid peak” – Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said that a positive trend is emerging from the data, according to the Telegraph, with cases starting to level off
“Lords turn the spotlight on ‘addictive’ quantitative easing” – Liam Halligan heralds the forthcoming report of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee into the dangers of Quantitative Easing, one of the Bank of England’s tools in supporting the economy through lockdown
“Britons among most anxious in world about loosening Covid rules” – “Almost eight in ten people are nervous about the loosening of lockdown restrictions and over a third will shun large crowds and social gatherings due to covid related health anxiety,” Lucy Johnston says, reporting on a survey carried out by MedicAlert for the Sunday Express
“Why the Covid vaccines are illegal without informed consent” – The Conservative Woman translates a French legal judgement on mandatory vaccination, first published in the Revue Des Droits et Libertés Fondamentaux. It argues that Covid vaccines are unlawful in the absence of informed consent because they are experimental
“Covid was just a trial run for a disease far worse” – Julian Savulescu and Dominic Wilkinson, both bioethics professors at the University of Oxford, suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a trial run for something much worse in future
Belgian woman, 90, dies after contracting two COVID-19 strains” – Belgian scientists have revealed that a 90 year-old woman who died after falling ill with COVID-19 in Aalst, Belgium had tested positive for both the alpha and beta strains, MailOnline reports
“Lisbon appeal court Judge blasts off over Portugal’s Sanitary Apartheid” – Portugal Resident highlights a Facebook post written by Lisbon Appeal Court judge Florbela Sebastião e Silva, lamenting that Portugal has become “a country that discriminates against its inhabitants on the basis of a health passport”
“Serbian rock festival goes ahead as partygoers check for coronavirus” – The Novi Sad rock festival in Serbia went ahead without face masks or social distancing, Euronews reports, with all participants required to provide proof of vaccination, recovery from Covid or a negative test result
“U.S. vaccine-related deaths increasing rapidly” – The Swiss Doctor looks at the latest update from the U.S. VAERS system which added 2,083 post-vaccination deaths to its running total
“COVID-19 not connected to bats, Israeli biologists say” – “There is no evidence to show a connection between bats and COVID-19,” says Israeli veterinary doctor Maya Weinberg, according to the Jerusalem Post. “This idea bordered on conspiracy” and has done “great damage to bats around the world”
“COVID-19: Does immunity wane six months after jab? Too early to tell” – Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten says that the recently reported dip in the vaccine’s effectiveness in Israel was mostly due to infections in people who had the jab early on, the Jerusalem Post reports. Professor Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunology lab at Bar-Ilan University argues the data is not yet in
“Fauci says there ‘should be more’ vaccine mandates” – President Joe Biden’s Chief Medical Adviser used an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union to push for more “vaccine mandates at a local level”, the Washington Examiner reports
“Bat Scientists Warn That the World May Never Know COVID-19 Origins” – Dr Linfa Wang, a professor in the emerging infectious diseases program at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, has joined the hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the Wall Street Journal says, though he acknowledges that he and his colleagues are still searching for the source of the SARS of 2002
“Ignore no soliciting signs” – RT takes a look at the guidelines being given to the “health ambassadors” carrying out Biden administration’s “Door Knocking Project to Increase Vaccine Acceptance”. They are instructed to keep a spreadsheet of who is jabbed and who is “not interested”
“New South Wales confirms first Covid-related death in 10 months” – A woman in her nineties died in Sydney having contracted the infection in a family setting, the BBC reports. This is the state’s 57th death from the virus since the start of the pandemic, the first in 10 months
“Morrison to provide support for businesses hit by Sydney’s lockdown ” – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to announce a financial support package for businesses affected by the Sydney lockdown, the Daily Mail reports, amidst warnings it could last for weeks
“Richard Madeley says he has no regrets” – Broadcaster Richard Madeley says he has no regrets about asking Susan Michie whether her politics influences the advice she gives to the Government
Richard Madeley says he has "no regrets" asking SAGE professor Susan Michie on GMB if her views were influenced by being a member of the Communist Party.@TVKev | @richardm56 | #talkRADIOpic.twitter.com/rI3Qeh1D2A
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