- “Covid falls again as Sir Patrick Vallance says latest wave has peaked” – Daily U.K. cases have fallen week-on-week since Friday after rocketing at the start of March, the Mail reports.
- “You don’t have to take a Covid test if you’re ill from Friday” – Workers with Covid symptoms will no longer need to take a test from Friday as England tries to get back to normal after the pandemic, the Health Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed, the Mail reports.
- “More than 300,000 sign petition to keep free lateral flows” – The appeal, organised by Dr. John Puntis, is calling on Boris Johnson to ditch the plan to stop offering free lateral flows in England, the Mail reports.
- “Nicola Sturgeon relaxes Scotland’s mask laws from Monday” – From Monday the laws will be replaced by guidance in churches and at weddings, but restrictions will remain mandatory for retailers and public transport until April 18th amid record Covid hospitalisations, reports the Mail.
- “Pandemic Lessons Learned: CDC Versus Natural Immunity” – Joe Wang in the Epoch Times is beginning to wonder if CDC stands for Centre for Data Control.
- “Protests grow against China’s Zero-Covid lockdowns” – A video in Shanghai shows people demanding “freedom” as workers in China go unpaid and people lose access to food, reports the Telegraph.
- “FDA Authorises 4th Dose for Elderly & Immunocompromised as mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness Wanes while Omicron Circulates” – The latest developments examined by TrialSite News.
- “Covid jab to be ‘an annual vaccine’ instead of four-monthly booster” – Telegraph report that Sir Patrick Vallance said Britain needed to move to a “sensible annual cycle” of immunisation which ensured the vulnerable are protected.
- “Public satisfaction with GPs falls to worst level on record” – The NHS’s reputation also hits a 25-year low, after patients struggled to access care during the pandemic, according to the Telegraph.
- “Imperial College’s Fear Machine” – Before hurrying into policy decisions, policy-makers should have been aware that Neil Ferguson’s Imperial College team had a history of defective modelling, write Steve Hanke and Kevin Dowd in the National Review.
- “Ep 45. Rishi’s Dirty Dishes” – This week on the Real Normal Podcast, the guys talk Rishi Sunak’s meagre offerings of a budget, growing pigs for food, heroes and villains, gammon racism, how Brexiteers are perceived, updates from Ukraine and more.
- “Wind Power Down To 3% In Past Week” – It won’t have escaped your attention that the weather has been dry, sunny and settled during the past week As a result, wind power has been negligible, averaging 1.01GW or 3% of total demand, writes Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “Sturgeon humiliated as Cambo oil field gets green light – UK to slash Russia reliance” – Nicola Sturgeon has been left red-faced after the U.K. gave the Cambo oil and gas field a licence extension in the face of Russian energy threats, reports the Express.
- “Sharron Davies slams ‘blatant fudge’ after transgender cyclist Emily Bridges is ruled out of Laura Kenny race” – British Cycling accepts the decision, but says riders deserve more clarity and understanding around participation in elite competitions, reports the Telegraph (also in the Mail).
- “Sajid Javid: ‘When it comes to sport, it should be sex not gender’” – Health Secretary Sajid Javid tells Freddie Sayers in UnHerd that sport should be based on biological sex.
- “Teacher suspended for using mug featuring image of Prophet Muhammad” – The teacher at Colchester Royal Grammar School in Essex is said to have been seen with a white mug which featured a cartoon of Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad, the Mail reports. Erm, why are schools enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws?
- “Covid Lockdowns: Never forget what’s been done” – Twitter thread from LLadany looking back on some of the worst offending tweets from the last two years, especially the early weeks, spreading undue fear across social media.
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