The Netherlands went back into lockdown from 18th December to 26th January. This policy was a complete failure: infections began rising steeply during the lockdown, and continued rising steeply after it ended.
Britain's Omicron wave is fizzling out ahead of the planned ending of the final Covid rules next week, according to official data which show the outbreak is shrinking in terms of infections, hospitalisations and deaths.
Cases of COVID-19 in England fell again today with 97,770 reported, the first time there have been fewer than 100,000 reported since December 27th and a drop of 36% in a week.
Current Covid data does not indicate a need for new restrictions, Cabinet minister Steve Barclay has said.
A few months ago, case rates were highest in the least vaccinated states. Now they're highest in the most vaccinated states. As in Europe, vaccine passports have done almost nothing to prevent transmission.
Is it really true that Omicron is surging and warrants the Prime Minister breaking his promise that the lifting of restrictions in the summer was "irreversible"? Not according to the latest data.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor discusses what we know so far about the Omicron Covid variant and sees little evidence of increased pressure on the NHS to date.
Some states in Germany have already imposed restrictions on the unvaccinated, but Federal lawmakers are meeting on Thursday to discuss whether these rules should be applied nationally.
According to Government statistics, Covid cases have been on their longest unbroken decline since May.
Last week, The New York Times ran a piece titled ‘Needless Suffering: Britain offers a warning of what happens when a country ignores Covid’. But infections are in steady decline. And even if they weren't, so what?
