News Round-Up
15 May 2024
The Guardian has been running a series to mark the second anniversary of the first lockdown called "Rewriting COVID-19", but it's more like rewriting the facts.
The Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said pandemic measures should remain in place indefinitely to be able to "ramp things up again" if needed.
The UK lockdowns cost more lives than they saved and must not happen again, scientists told MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum at the latest meeting of the Pandemic Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group.
Covid infections are 36 times higher now than they were at the time of Prince Philip's funeral, when the Queen poignantly sat alone. The Queen is owed an apology.
Brits should return to wearing masks in enclosed spaces and not meeting indoors, the Chief Medical Adviser of the U.K. Government Health Security Agency has said – boding ill for future interventions.
Two years ago today the UK climbed aboard the lockdown bandwagon and ordered the population to stay at home to try to 'flatten the curve'. But the evidence shows lockdowns are unnecessary, ineffective and harmful.
A visit from an HSE official reveals that Covid health and safety 'guidance' is still being enforced on businesses, making a mockery of the Government's claim that we are learning to 'live with Covid'.
A new lockdown analysis by David Campbell and Kevin Dowd, entitled "The Abandonment of Good Government in the COVID-19 Crisis” has been published in the Studies in Applied Economics series from Johns Hopkins University.
British holidaymakers will not be required to wear masks on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights following the Government's announcement that all Covid travel measures will end on Friday.
All UK Covid restrictions on foreign travel, including passenger locator forms and tests for the unvaccinated, are to be scrapped in time for families planning to go abroad for the Easter holidays.
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