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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.

by Ashton Warhurst By the Government’s own definition, the people of Britain have been trapped in an abusive relationship with its own Government for almost a year, and the only end in sight is the vague suggestion of a maybe. I think I am in an abusive relationship, and I don’t know how to escape. My abuser is too powerful and is intent on turning everyone I know against me, relentlessly trying to convince me that it’s all my fault, that somehow I’m to blame. It seems they’re the ‘good guy’ and I’m just a naïve nobody who doesn’t understand what’s best for me. The realisation that I might be in an abusive relationship dawned on me when I read the Government’s statutory guidance framework for Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship. This framework, introduced in 2015, presents a list of control behaviours that help lawmakers recognise when a person, such as myself, is in an abusive relationship. As I read through the list, it’s obvious that my own abuser ticks a disquietingly large majority of these boxes. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, it is my own abuser who wrote the framework. Isolating a person from their friends and familyFor almost a year now, my abuser has kept me away from my friends or ...

When New Zealand's 'Freedom Convoy' protests rose up against Jacinda Ardern's severe 'No Jab, No Job' mandates, a professional filmmaking team was there to capture it. Watch the film they made.

Sajid Javid says he is not willing to delay the imposition of mandatory vaccination rules for care home workers and that those who refuse to get 'jabbed' should “get out and get another job”.

The Government risks forcing some care homes to close by insisting that unvaccinated staff must be sacked, warns Unison in a plea to ministers to drop its plans. "Bullying people can never be the right approach."

While the number of U.S. employees only willing to take on new staff who are vaccinated against Covid remains low, the 'no jab, no job' trend appears to be increasing at a worryingly high pace.

Australian rules footballer Liam Jones has given up the game, as well as his $500,000 a year contract, because of his refusal to get vaccinated despite the league's 'no jab, no job' policy.

Arrival of the Brazilian Variant Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro Despite newly toughened entry requirements to the UK, a 'variant of concern' first detected in Brazil has made its way onto our shores, as the BBC reports. Three cases have been detected in England and separately three in Scotland.In England, officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant.The three Scottish residents had flown to north-east Scotland from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.Experts believe this variant (P1) – first detected in travellers to Japan from Manaus in northern Brazil in January – could be more contagious. There are also concerns vaccines may not be as effective against it – but NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said vaccines could be "rapidly adapted".Dr Susan Hopkins, from Public Health England (PHE), said the UK was more advanced than many other countries in identifying the variants and mutations and therefore able to act quickly. On-again, off-again sceptic Alistair Haimes greeted the news with a tongue-in-cheek Tweet: https://twitter.com/AlistairHaimes/status/1366084335472963584 Advocates of Zero Covid have been having a tricky week too, as the supposedly Covid-free island fortresses of New Zealand and the Isle of Man have hurtled back into various shutdowns and restrictions after, inevitably, finding cases again. The BBC reports on the Manx situation: Nine ...

In what has been dubbed the "Pfizer boob job", dozens of British women are reporting ballooning breasts after their Covid vaccines.

Government to Close Schools Again The Government has announced targeted school closures for England in an attempt to control the spread of the virus (though it's unlikely to help much, as Toby explained yesterday). The Telegraph has the details. One million primary school pupils will not return to classrooms as planned next term as Boris Johnson unveiled sweeping school closures and warned more could follow.The Prime Minister said that in order to combat the spread of the new coronavirus variant, the majority of secondary school pupils will now stay at home until "at least" January 18th, two weeks after term was supposed to start. Those in exam years 11 and 13 will return on January 11th.Only the children of key workers and vulnerable children will go back on January 4th, the scheduled start date. It means the staggered start to term which had previously been announced will be moved back by a week.Primary schools in "high infection areas", estimated to affect one million pupils, will also close for the first time since the spring for at least two weeks as Mr Johnson said "even tougher action" was needed because of the "sheer pace" of the rising infections.The Prime Minister said there was no guarantee that the January 18th return date would not slip further, as the latest data on infection rates would be reviewed at that point.He added: "I ...