“Glasgow to stay in toughest lockdown level as Covid cases rise” – With cases rising in Glasgow and Clyde, the Guardian says that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has decided it would be unwise to move the city down from ‘Tier 3’ to ‘Tier 2’ this weekend
“One-parent rule for boy’s cancer treatment cruel” – Nineteen-month old Carson Josephson has leukaemia and needs regular treatment at a children’s’ hospital in Cardiff but, the BBC reports, due to the Welsh Government’s Covid rules, only one parent can go in with him at a time. His father has called the rules “cruel”
“UK scientist feels vindicated as focus turns to Wuhan lab” – Professor Angus Dalgleish who was shunned for claiming that the coronavirus was manufactured and leaked from the Wuhan lab has welcomed President Biden’s demand for an inquiry, the Times reports
“The manufacturing of fear” – Laura Dodsworth gives Spiked an account of the significant role the media played in making sure that the British “were one of the most frightened populations in the world”
“Cummings – portrait of a weak-minded fanatic” – “Cummings’s presentation of the lockdown argument was no more sophisticated than anyone else’s,” says Daniel Miller at the Conservative Woman. “It depended on systematic evasion and falsified predictions delivered in hysterical language”
“Sketch Notes on A Pandemic – Lucy Thorne” – The Sunday Express‘s Lucy Johnston talks to Lucy Thorne, who wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister describing the struggles young people have faced during lockdown
“£17K Fine, ASBO & Arrest for Lady at Christian Bookshop & Tea Room” – Alex Belfield from the Voice of Reason interviews Chris, the owner of the The Mustard Seed Christian Bookshop & Tea Room in Nottingham, who was arrested and fined by the police over lockdown rules and is now fighting back
“It doesn’t seem like Covid’s here at all” – Thousands of Chelsea and Manchester City fans are delighted to be in Porto for the football, but some locals are concerned about the Covid risk, Sky News reports
“Remarks by Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the US on the Origin Tracing of COVID-19” – “Smear campaign and blame shifting are making a comeback,” the Chinese embassy spokesperson said, but “out of a sense of responsibility towards the health of mankind, we support a comprehensive study of all early cases of COVID-19 found worldwide and a thorough investigation into some secretive bases and biological laboratories all over the world”
“Overrun with kids attempting suicide’: Children’s Colorado declares state of emergency” – Beckers’ Hospital Review reports that a state of emergency has been declared at Children Hospital, Colorado. The CEO Jena Hausman explaining that the inpatient units are “overrun with kids attempting suicide and suffering from other forms of major mental health illness”
Lord Sumption, former Supreme Court Justice, tells Julia there may be a moral justification to break the law if lockdown does not end in June: “These are immoral restrictions on freedoms derived from a refusal to consider any aspect of this crisis other than Covid.”@JuliaHB1pic.twitter.com/ehbs4tfHd9
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