Dr Roger Watson makes his first trip to China since Covid and finds some surprises, including a society less visibly scarred by lockdown than the UK and a senior nurse who says she was never required to wear a face mask.
Prof Carl Heneghan has been called to give evidence to the Covid Inquiry, but wonders what the point is if it has already decided critical questions such as the efficacy of mass Covid testing.
Hundreds of Britons reported injuries from getting tested for Covid, official data show, from nose bleeds and choking to fainting and even death.
Britons should go to work if they have a headache or feel tired, even though both are now officially recognised as Covid symptoms, says Sajid Javid. The chaos will only end when all COVID-19 guidance is lifted.
The Government's scrapping of free Covid tests combined with an expansion to the NHS list of symptoms and advice to stay at home when unwell will trigger a "free for all" of staff absences, experts have warned.
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
Free PCR and possibly also lateral flow tests will be axed within weeks as part of the PM's plan to live with Covid, though tests are likely to stay free for vulnerable people and within hospitals and high-risk settings.
Self-isolation is to be cut to five days in England, as Ministers start to relax Covid rules at the glacial pace we've all become accustomed to these past two years.
"My son and I were welcomed to the first day of term with a screaming child pinned to the floor by a parent jamming a swab down their nose." A concerned parent on how small children have suffered under Covid rules.
In what may be a sign of things to come, arch-lockdown fanatic Michael Gove has begun to pivot, contradicting Nadhim Zahawi by refusing to rule out the end of free LFTs and saying the pressure on the NHS is "abating".
