Day: 15 July 2021

Positive Covid tests have shot up in the last two weeks in the Netherlands after nightclubs reopened. But is there more to it than meets the eye?

How many are dying because the NHS is still not offering any early treatment to people suffering with COVID-19 at home, despite the proven efficacy of a number of repurposed drugs?

20% of Brits support "permanent" Covid curfews, according to recent Ipsos MORI polling. But new data suggests that this is far off the mark, and that wording the question slightly different bears a much lower percentage.

We're publishing a guest post by Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School, asking whether the state is ever justified in imposing a lockdown? He thinks it may be, but not at the moment.

A number of large supermarket chains, including Sainsbury's and Tesco, have announced that they will continue to tell customers – over tannoys and on signs – to wear face masks when in-store after "Freedom Day".

A pub in Norwich has become the first in Britain to announce that it will check vaccine passports on the door and refuse entry to unvaccinated Brits, citing fears over the Delta Covid variant.

More than half a million people in England alone were told to self-isolate last week after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for Covid. It's no wonder so many people are deleting the NHS Covid app.

A Manchester mother is demanding an apology from the police for sending officers in a riot van to check that her 12 year-old daughter – who believed "she was going to get arrested at any moment" – was self-isolating.

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.