Unvaccinated tennis ace Novak Djokovic has been threatened with deportation after his visa was rejected by Australian officials amid a mix-up with his application. Don't expect the world's No.1 to go down without a fight.
Boris all but ruled out another lockdown in the House of Commons earlier and held out the prospect of a return "closer to normality" within weeks, hinting at the abandonment of 'Plan B' by February.
A closer look at the recent papers from Oxford University on post-vaccine myocarditis finds some concerns about the methodology which may underestimate the risk.
The UKHSA has announced that confirmatory PCR tests will no longer be available for those who test positive on an LFT test without symptoms, raising fears of staff shortages being exacerbated by false positives.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to "piss off" the unvaccinated by banning them from public venues such as restaurants, cafes and cinemas.
We already know that people overestimate the risks of Covid. A new survey has found that a sizeable majority of Democrats wrongly believe the vaccines protect better against infection than natural immunity.
Covid testing rules are to be relaxed as part of efforts to shorten isolation periods and ease staffing shortages. But given mass testing has clearly failed to contain the virus why continue it at all?
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
